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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Cliffs of Cliviger Gorge with a Bridge in the Foreground 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Cliffs of Cliviger Gorge with a Bridge in the Foreground’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 40 Verso:
The Cliffs of Cliviger Gorge with a Bridge in the Foreground 1799
D01978
Turner Bequest XLV 40a
Pencil on white wove paper, 329 x 225 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram below right of centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Although this drawing, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, is too slight to furnish conclusive evidence, it almost certainly shows the same line of cliffs as those on the versos of folios 37, 38 and 39 (D01972, D01974, D01976). Like that on D01974, this depicts a short section of the ridge, with its long green slopes crowned by characteristic sheer black gritstone rocks.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Cliffs of Cliviger Gorge with a Bridge in the Foreground 1799 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-the-cliffs-of-cliviger-gorge-with-a-bridge-in-the-foreground-r1177853, accessed 28 June 2024.