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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Wales 1798 > Hereford Court Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Ludford Bridge, Ludlow 1798

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ludford Bridge, Ludlow’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 98 Recto:
Ludford Bridge, Ludlow 1798
D01343
Turner Bequest XXXVIII 89
Watercolour on white wove paper, 229 x 332 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXVIII 89’ bottom left, descending vertically
Finberg gave this sheet the title ‘Weir Bridge, Ludlow’.1 Turner’s drawing appears to show the sixteenth-century three-arched stone bridge over the River Teme that links the outlying village of Ludford to the south of the town with Ludlow itself. The bridge is still in place, one of three bridges over the river that almost encircles the town. Other drawings made at Ludlow in this book are on folios 96 recto and 97 recto (D01261, D01317; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 11a, 63).
Finberg suggested that this leaf, loose in 1909, ‘Should be p.63a’,2 that is, falling between what are now folios 97 and 99 (D01317, D01318; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 63, 64); it has since been bound in at that point.
1
Finberg 1909, I, p.88.
2
Ibid.; see also p.87.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Ludford Bridge, Ludlow 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-ludford-bridge-ludlow-r1173238, accessed 27 September 2024.