'The River Thames, from Greenwich Park', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

The River Thames, from Greenwich Park

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

D06818

Turner Bequest CII 49

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 50 Recto:

The River Thames, from Greenwich Park circa 1808

D06818
Turner Bequest CII 49

Pencil on white wove paper, 76 x 115 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘49’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CII 49’ top left, inverted

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Drawn with the sketchbook inverted, this sketch continues on folio 49 verso (D06817). See Introduction to this sketchbook and note to folio 48 (D06814) for the discrepancy between the current folio number and Finberg’s.

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