Joseph Mallord William Turner
Bridgnorth on the River Severn (Shropshire)

CultureBritish
Titles
  • Bridgnorth on the River Severn (Shropshire)
  • A Bend on the River
Date1798
Place depictedUnited Kingdom
MediumWatercolor over graphite, with scratching out on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 13 × 18 1/4 in. (33 × 46.4 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer, in honor of Gary Tinterow
Object number2019.287
Non exposé

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ProvenanceMathers[?] sale, December 11, 1872, lot 85 (as A Bend on the River);[ Purchased by Agnews, London [stock number 1670] by 1872]; Purchased by James Worthington, May 21, 1873 (as A Bend on the River); Alfred Geoffrey Turner (1886-1956), Hungerford Park, Hungerford (as A Bend on the River); [his sale, at Hungerford Park, Hungerford, June 12-14, 1956]; Peter Rhodes, Oxford, at least by 1960; [Sotheby’s, London, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Drawings and Watercolours, July 11, 1985, lot 108 (as “The Property of a Gentleman,” A View on the River Severn at Bridgnorth Shropshire)]; [Christie’s, London, British Art on Paper, November 21, 2001, lot 40]; [purchased by Andrew Clayton-Payne, London, 2001-2002]; Private Collection, UK, 2002-2018; [Andrew Clayton-Payne, London, 2018-2019]; purchased by MFAH, 2019.
Exhibition HistoryWatercolours from the Collection of Mr. Peter Rhodes, Letchworth Art Gallery, Hertfordshire, June 4–June 25, 1960, cat. 16.

English Drawings and Watercolours from the Collection of Mr. Peter Rhodes, Reading Museum and Art Gallery, Reading, February 11–March 4, 1961, cat. 17.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Verso: Signed in graphite, lower center: JMW Turner, RA
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, on mount (presumably after 1956): “J.M.W. Turner, RA / (1775–1851) Thunderstorm: A Bend of the River with a Town Above / circa 1802 Coll: A.G. Turner”
Catalogue raisonnéWilton, Andrew. The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1979, p. 311, cat. 90.
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