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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Pease Bridge, Cockburnspath 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Pease Bridge, Cockburnspath’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 71 Verso:
Pease Bridge, Cockburnspath 1801
D02722
Turner Bequest LIV 71a
Pencil with a little scraping-out on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 164 x 115 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Pease Bridge, spanning a ravine on the old Berwick-Edinburgh road, was built in 1786. It was 91 metres long and 39 high (300 by 127 feet). Another drawing of the bridge from a closer viewpoint, also made with the page turned vertically, is on folio 72 recto opposite (D02723).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Pease Bridge, Cockburnspath 1801 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 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-pease-bridge-cockburnspath-r1178908, accessed 30 June 2024.