J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner London Bridge, St Paul's Cathedral in the Distance 1820-5

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘London Bridge, St Paul's Cathedral in the Distance’ 1820-5
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Verso:
London Bridge, St Paul’s Cathedral in the Distance 1820–5
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Turner Bequest CV 36a
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Half the height of St P’ by a building at centre and ?‘Sun on high on Right’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted.
See Introduction to the sketchbook for plans in the mid 1820s for a series of London subjects, including London Bridge.

David Blayney Brown
June 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘London Bridge, St Paul’s Cathedral in the Distance 1820–5 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-london-bridge-st-pauls-cathedral-in-the-distance-r1134553, accessed 03 February 2025.