Oil paint on canvas
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>
Cows in a Landscape with a Footbridge
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
animals: mammals
architecture
bridge
bridges and viaducts
cow
hill
landscape
river
water: inland
wooded
painting oil paint canvas
30 May 2008 – 7 September 2008
2008-09-07
30 May 2008 – 7 September 2008
2008-09-07
2008-05-30
Galerie Stihl Waiblingen (Waiblingen, Germany)
2008-05-30
Turner "Liber Studiorum"
Loan-out
13 November 2017 – 4 March 2018
2018-03-04
13 November 2017 – 4 March 2018
2018-03-04
2017-11-13
The Lightbox (Woking, UK)
http://www.thelightbox.org/
2017-11-13
Pastoral Elegance: Turner in Surrey
Loan-out
Cows in a Landscape with a Footbridge
support: 479 × 711 mm
frame: 692 × 917 × 65 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>196. </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-cows-in-a-landscape-with-a-footbridge-n04657" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04657</span></a>]<b> Cows in a Landscape with a Footbridge</b> <i>c.</i>
1805–7
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<br/>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (4657)
<br/>Canvas, 18 7/8 × 28 (48 × 71)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856; transferred to the Tate Gallery 1938.</p>
<p><b>Exh.</b> Arts Council tour 1952 (4).</p>
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<p>Close in style and technique to the larger Thames sketches of <i>c.</i>
1806–7. The subject and, in general terms and in reverse, the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> were followed in a plate in the first part of the <i>Liber Studiorum</i>, ‘Bridge and Cows’, R. 2, published on 11 June 1807 and classified as ‘P’ for Pastoral (repr. Finberg 1924, p. 7; the preliminary <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a>, CXVI-A, and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/etching" title="Glossary definition for 'Etching'"><span>etching</span></a> repr. p. 6). In addition the rectangular <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/f/form" title="Glossary definition for 'Form'"><span>form</span></a> seen through the break in the trees in the centre foreshadows another <i>Liber</i> plate, ‘Solitude’, R. 53, published 12 May 1814 and itself developed in a much later oil <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a>, No. 515 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-sunrise-a-castle-on-a-bay-solitude-n01985" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N01985</span></a>] (the <i>Liber</i> plate, classified as ‘E.P.’ for ‘Elegant [?] Pastoral’, is repr. Finberg 1924, p. 211).</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
2004-10-06T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
animals: mammals architecture bridge bridges and viaducts cow hill landscape river water: inland wooded