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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bothwell Bridge, Lanarkshire from the Site of the Battlefield 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bothwell Bridge, Lanarkshire from the Site of the Battlefield’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Recto:
Bothwell Bridge, Lanarkshire from the Site of the Battlefield 1834
D26321
Turner Bequest CCLXIX 32
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘32’ bottom left inverted and ‘340’ top left inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIX 32’ top left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted, here is a view of Bothwell Bridge in Lanarkshire as seen from the north side of the River Clyde around the site of the 1679 Battle of Bothwell Bridge. The view is very similar to the sketch on folio 31 verso (D26320) and is one of six pages of sketches of the bridge (see folio 31; D26319 for references).

Thomas Ardill
October 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Bothwell Bridge, Lanarkshire from the Site of the Battlefield 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 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-bothwell-bridge-lanarkshire-from-the-site-of-the-battlefield-r1136251, accessed 01 July 2024.