'The River Thames near Isleworth: Punt and Barges in the Foreground', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

The River Thames near Isleworth: Punt and Barges in the Foreground

From Thames, from Reading to Walton Sketchbook

Turner Bequest XCV

Date 1805

MediumGraphite and watercolour on paper

Dimensionssupport: 258 x 365 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D05953

Turner Bequest XCV 49

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

The River Thames near Isleworth: Punt and Barges in the Foreground 1805

D05953
Turner Bequest XCV 49

Pencil and watercolour with scratching out on white wove paper, 258 x 365 mm
Stamped in black ‘XCV 49’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Exhibition history

References

1909

A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.247, XCV 49, as ‘Scene on the Thames, with barges and figures’.

1964

John Rothenstein and Martin Butlin, Turner, London 1964, p.23, reproduced pl.33.

1974

Martin Butlin, Andrew Wilton and John Gage, Turner 1775–1851, exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1974, pp.59, 63.

1975

Graham Reynolds, Turner 1775–1851 zhivopis', risunok, akvarel', exhibition catalogue, Hermitage Museum, Leningrad 1975, p.58 reproduced.

1976

Werner Haftmann, Andrew Wilton, Siegmar Hosten and others, William Turner und die Landschaft seiner Zeit, exhibition catalogue, Hamburger Kunsthalle 1976, pp.15, 65 reproduced, 146.

1980

Michael Spender and Malcolm Fry, Turner at the Bankside Gallery: Catalogue of an Exhibition of Drawings & Water-colours of British River Scenes from the British Museum, exhibition catalogue, Bankside Gallery, London 1980, pp.78, 79 reproduced in colour and on front cover.

1980

Turner’s England: Twelve Watercolours, London 1980, pp.2,3 reproduced.

1981

Dimitrios Papastamos, John Gage and Lindsay Stainton, J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) / ¿¿.¿.G. ¿e¿¿e¿ (1775–1851), exhibition catalogue, National Pinakothiki, Athens 1981, p.72 reproduced in colour (also on front cover).

1991

Ian Warrell, ‘R.N. Wornum and the First Three Loan Collections; A History of the Early Display of the Turner Bequest Outside London’, Turner Studies, vol.11, no.1, Summer 1991, p.45.

1993

David Hill, Turner on the Thames: River Journeys in the Year 1805, New Haven and London 1993, pp.45, 47 reproduced in colour pl.51, 170, as ‘Thames near Isleworth’.

2001

David Hill, ‘Thames Sketches, 1805’, in Evelyn Joll, Martin Butlin and Luke Herrmann eds., The Oxford Companion to J.M.W. Turner, Oxford 2001, p.334.

2007

David Blayney Brown, Turner Watercolours, London 2007, p.42 reproduced in colour.

This is a right-hand page from the sketchbook. The exact position on the river near Isleworth is uncertain; it could be close to Turner’s Sion (or Syon) Ferry House or further away if a building behind the barges in the right distance is the Pavilion in Syon Park. A heavy shower approaches from the right and men are hauling a canvas cover over the cargo of a boat.

Verso:

Blank, save for trials of red watercolour. Variously inscribed in pencil, ‘152 erased’, ‘561’, ‘29’, ‘XCV 49’, ‘Loan 152’.

David Blayney Brown
February 2009

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