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>
Valley with a Distant Bridge and Tower
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
hill
landscape
river
valley
water: inland
painting oil paint canvas
10 April 2006 – 12 March 2007
2007-03-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2006-04-10
Impressions and Ideas Turner's Oil Sketches and Studies
Collection based display
Valley with a Distant Bridge and Tower
support: 911 × 1222 mm
frame: 1040 × 1350 × 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>256. </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-valley-with-a-distant-bridge-and-tower-n05505" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05505</span></a>]<b> Valley with a Distant Bridge and Tower</b> <i>c.</i>
1825</p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (5505)</p>
<p>Canvas, 35 7/8 × 48 1/8 (91 × 122)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856; transferred to the Tate Gallery 1947.</p>
<p><b>Exh.</b> Arts Council tour 1952 (7).</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Davies 1946, p. 162.</p>
<p>An unfinished oil with few parallels in Turner's work; perhaps the nearest is <i>Evening <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>Landscape</span></a>, Chichester Canal</i> (No. 282 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-the-lake-petworth-sunrise-n05563" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05563</span></a>]), also tentatively dated to c. 1825. There are other parallels, rather more developed in style it would seem, among the Italian sketches of 1828, e.g. Nos. 318–24; the scene here is possibly but not necessarily Italian.</p>
<p><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
hill landscape river valley water: inland