'Shipping on the River Thames at Greenwich', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Shipping on the River Thames at Greenwich

From Greenwich Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CII

Date c.1808

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 76 x 115 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D06829

Turner Bequest CII 54 a

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 55 Verso:

Shipping on the River Thames at Greenwich circa 1808

D06829
Turner Bequest CII 54a

Pencil on white wove paper, 76 x 115 mm

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

See Introduction to the sketchbook and note to folio 48 (D06814) for the discrepancy between the current folio number and Finberg’s. This sketch, drawn with the sketchbook inverted, continues on the inner back cover (D40668).

David Blayney Brown
March 2007

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.

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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sketchbooks

1802-18 Academician and professor

Sketchbooks from the 1800s

Greenwich Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest

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Joseph Mallord William TurnerShipping on the River Thames at Greenwich c.1808

Artwork details

Turner's sketchbooks