Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Confluence of the Thames and the Medway exhibited 1808
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75. [T03874] The Confluence of the Thames and the Medway Exh. 1808
TATE GALLERY AND THE NATIONAL TRUST (LORD EGREMONT COLLECTION) PETWORTH HOUSE
Canvas, 35 × 47 (89 × 119·4)
Signed ‘J M W Turner RA fe’ lower right
Coll. Bought by the Earl of Egremont probably from Turner's gallery in 1808; by descent to the third Lord Leconfield who in 1947 conveyed Petworth to the National Trust; in 1957 the contents of the State Rooms were accepted by the Treasury in part payment of death duties.
Exh. Turner's gallery 1808; Tate Gallery 1951 (17 as ‘Sheerness’).
Lit. Petworth Inventories 1837, 1856 (London House); Collins Baker 1920, p. 126 no. 665; Clare 1951, p. 41; Finberg 1961, pp. 145–6, 149, 469 no. 120; Joll 1977, p. 375… (read more)
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