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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 6 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Landscape with a Bridge c.1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Landscape with a Bridge’ c.1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Recto:
Landscape with a Bridge c.1816
D11612
Turner Bequest CXLIX 17
Pencil on white wove paper, 93 x 149 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Maudlin Chapel’ bottom right
Inscribed in red ink ‘17’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXLIX 17’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch depicts a major medieval bridge, with at least six arches visible, and large, buttress cutwaters, together with a small church or chapel to the right. The reading of ‘Maudlin [or presumably Magdalen] Chapel’ in conjunction with this bridge has not so far suggested a likely site. For general notes on the series of unidentified subjects to which this sketch belongs see folio 2 recto (D11597).
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David Hill
October 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Landscape with a Bridge c.1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-landscape-with-a-bridge-r1143757, accessed 21 November 2024.