Pen and ink and watercolour on paper
Subjects Related to the Bristol and Malmesbury Tour
Subjects Related to the Bristol and Malmesbury Tour
Bristol and Malmesbury 1791
Bristol and Malmesbury 1791
Bristol
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<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>
Bristol Cathedral College Green
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
Bristol
Bristol, Bristol Cathedral
cathedral
England
England, South West
England, Southern
features
Gothic
house
medieval
periods and styles
places
religious
residential
street
tower
townscapes / man-made features
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
<p>Turner visited Bristol for the first time in 1791, and made sketches of buildings of historical or architectural interest. Since 1789 he had been working with the architectural draughtsman Thomas Malton, whose descriptive rendering of buildings he soon mastered. The low viewpoint enhances the soaring height of the cathedral.</p><p><em>Gallery label, May 1993</em></p>
paper unique pen ink watercolour
28 July 2010 – 3 September 2010
2010-09-03
28 July 2010 – 3 September 2010
2010-09-03
2010-07-28
Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery (Merthyr Tydfil, UK)
2010-07-28
Centenary Exhibition
Loan-out
10 June 2021 – 17 October 2021
2021-10-17
10 June 2021 – 17 October 2021
2021-10-17
2021-06-10
Musée des Beaux-Arts (Bordeaux, France)
2021-06-10
Absolutely Bizarre!
Loan-out
Bristol Cathedral from College Green
support: 342 × 314 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>Turner visited Bristol for the first time in 1791, and made sketches of buildings of historical or architectural interest. Since 1789 he had been working with the architectural draughtsman Thomas Malton, whose descriptive rendering of buildings he soon mastered. The low viewpoint enhances the soaring height of the cathedral.</p>
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architecture Bristol Bristol, Bristol Cathedral cathedral England England, Southern England, South West features Gothic house medieval periods and styles places religious residential street tower townscapes / man-made features UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions
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