Whalley Bridge and Abbey

It could be Italy, but Turner’s painting shows a bridge in northern England, with textile dyers and cows in the water. Cuyp-like, but based on his own sketch. Like Claude Lorrain, Cuyp was a great model for Turner.

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Whalley Bridge and Abbey, Lancashire: Dyers Washing and Drying Cloth, c. 1811, Canvas, 61.2 x 92 cm, Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum (on loan from a private collection)