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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Farnley Hall and Yorkshire c.1808-24 > The Aqueduct Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The River Washburn, Looking Upstream to Lindley Bridge and Hall c.1816-18

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The River Washburn, Looking Upstream to Lindley Bridge and Hall’ c.1816-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Verso:
The River Washburn, Looking Upstream to Lindley Bridge and Hall c.1816–18
D11984
Turner Bequest CLII 9a
Pencil on white wove paper, 117 x 180 mm
Watermarked ‘R BAR[NARD] | 18[12]’
Stamped in brown ‘CLII 9a’ bottom right, running vertically
This sketch revisits a subject Turner had sketched in 1808 (Tate D12121; Turner Bequest CLIV W) and shortly afterwards developed into a finished watercolour made for Walter Fawkes, Valley of the Washburn and Lindley Bridge (private collection).1

David Hill
September 2008

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Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.372 no 625, exh. Agnew’s, London, 1991, no.62, where dated c.1818.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The River Washburn, Looking Upstream to Lindley Bridge and Hall c.1816–18 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2008, 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-washburn-looking-upstream-to-lindley-bridge-and-r1147011, accessed 23 November 2024.