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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Work for Earls Egremont and Lonsdale ... > Lowther Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Figures near a Bridge, and Cottage Interior with Figures 1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Figures near a Bridge, and Cottage Interior with Figures’ 1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Verso:
Figures near a Bridge, and Cottage Interior with Figures 1809
D07865
Turner Bequest CXIII 7a
Pencil on white wove paper, 83 x 114 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Yellow light’, ‘Yellow’ and ‘Red’ within the bridge, and ‘CW WR...Red...Light’ below it
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There are two subjects here. At left, drawn vertically and enclosed by a line, is a quick sketch of a bridge with a small house and a road or towpath with figures leaning over a wall towards a canal or river. Filling the main part of the leaf and continued on folio 8 (D07866) is a sketch of a cottage interior with figures.

David Blayney Brown
July 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Figures near a Bridge, and Cottage Interior with Figures 1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2009, 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-figures-near-a-bridge-and-cottage-interior-with-figures-r1135820, accessed 21 November 2024.