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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tracing of a Perspective Construction of Pulteney Bridge, Bath c.1810

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tracing of a Perspective Construction of Pulteney Bridge, Bath’ c.1810
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Tracing of a Perspective Construction of Pulteney Bridge, Bath circa 1810
D40007
Transfer ink on white wove paper, 560 x 760 mm
Watermarked ‘HAYES & WISE | 1799’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is an incomplete tracing from a perspective study of Robert Adam’s Pulteney Bridge, Bath (Tate D17081; Turner Bequest CXCV 111), made in connection with Turner’s lectures as Professor Perspective at the Royal Academy. It is on the back of another tracing made from the same study (Tate D17082; Turner Bequest CXCV 112). Turner based his drawing on an aquatint of ‘Pulteney Bridge from the Road’ by the younger Thomas Malton (1748–1804).
See notes to the recto (D17082) for further comments, the paper &c.

Andrea Fredericksen
June 2004

Supported by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Revised by David Blayney Brown
January 2012

How to cite

Andrea Fredericksen, ‘Tracing of a Perspective Construction of Pulteney Bridge, Bath c.1810 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2004, revised by David Blayney Brown, January 2012, 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-tracing-of-a-perspective-construction-of-pulteney-bridge-r1136816, accessed 22 November 2024.