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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > County Durham and Northumberland 1817 > Durham, North Shore, Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Prebends' Bridge and the Watergate, Durham 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prebends' Bridge and the Watergate, Durham’ 1817
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Verso:
Prebends’ Bridge and the Watergate, Durham 1817
D40920
Turner Bequest
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 185 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This brief continuation of foliage beside the bridge, seen in the main part of the view on folio 7 recto opposite (D12326), is not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory.1

Matthew Imms
February 2010

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See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.449.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Prebends’ Bridge and the Watergate, Durham 1817 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-prebends-bridge-and-the-watergate-durham-r1139324, accessed 22 November 2024.