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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > County Durham and Northumberland 1817 > Durham, North Shore, Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Wearmouth Bridge, Sunderland, from Upstream 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wearmouth Bridge, Sunderland, from Upstream’ 1817
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Verso:
Wearmouth Bridge, Sunderland, from Upstream 1817
D12322
Turner Bequest CLVII 3v
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 185 mm
Part watermark ‘J Wh | 18’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The loose pencil strokes here form a very slight continuation of the main view of the bridge on folio 4 recto opposite (D12323), and this page 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, ‘Wearmouth Bridge, Sunderland, from Upstream 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-wearmouth-bridge-sunderland-from-upstream-r1139319, accessed 25 November 2024.