Oil paint on mahogany
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Oil paintings
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Cattle in a Stream under a Bridge
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
animals: mammals
architecture
bridge
bridges and viaducts
cow
night
stream
times of the day
water: inland
painting oil paint mahogany
Cattle in a Stream under a Bridge
support: 314 × 394 mm
frame: 380 × 467 × 35 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p><b>200. </b>[<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-cattle-in-a-stream-under-a-bridge-n05534" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05534</span></a>]<b> Cattle in a Stream under a Bridge</b> <i>c.</i>
1805–7
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<br/>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (5534)
<br/>Mahogany, 12 3/8 × 15 1/2 (31·5 × 40)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856 (278, one of ‘37 Pictures various’, identified by chalk number on back; see No. 23); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1947.</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Davies 1946, pp. 166, 191.</p>
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<p>Very dirty and with considerable losses of paint, this unambitious picture probably dates from about the same time as No. 195 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-windsor-castle-cows-in-a-woody-landscape-n05541" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05541</span></a>]; it lacks the freedom of the Thames sketches of c. 1807 and other <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscapes</span></a> of later in the decade.</p>
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, <i>The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner</i>, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-07T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
animals: mammals architecture bridge bridges and viaducts cow night stream times of the day water: inland