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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The River Thames with Old Putney Bridge and St Mary's Church c.1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The River Thames with Old Putney Bridge and St Mary's Church’ c.1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 67 Verso:
The River Thames with Old Putney Bridge and St Mary’s Church c.1827
D22452
Turner Bequest CCXL 67a
Pencil on white wove paper, 68 x 110 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this drawing continues across folio 68 recto opposite (D22453). It shows the wooden Old Putney Bridge from the west, with the tower of St Mary’s Church, Putney above, looking west from the direction of Barnes on the south bank. A 1796 engraving of Putney-Bridge after Edward Dayes (1763–1804; London Metropolitan Archives) is directly comparable with this half of the view. For other sketches along the Thames between the bridges at Hammersmith and Putney, see under folio 58 verso (D22434).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The River Thames with Old Putney Bridge and St Mary’s Church c.1827 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-river-thames-with-old-putney-bridge-and-st-marys-church-r1148602, accessed 11 February 2025.