J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Shipping on the River Thames at Greenwich, and List of Works, Mainly for Walter Fawkes (Inscription by Turner) ?1809-10

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
Shipping on the River Thames at Greenwich, and List of Works, Mainly for Walter Fawkes (Inscription by Turner) ?1809–10
D40668
Pencil on white wove paper, 76 x 115 mm
Inscribed by Turner in ink (see main catalogue entry) at left, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The pencil sketch continues on folio 55 verso (D06829). The list of works is as follows:
4 Proofs of Liber Studiorum 
Mill. Sketch                         Per Contra 
1 Mill. Drawing                      C Draft. Feb.20. £100 
2 Bardon Tower 
3 Farnley 
4 Gordale 
5 Rocks 
7 Weathercote 
8 Geneva 
9 Bolton 
10 Thun 
For the titled works, all watercolours, see the longer list on folio 53 (D06824). If this ‘Bolton’ is Bolton Abbey from the North (British Museum, London), its date of 1809 is a clue to the likely date of Fawkes’s payment recorded here. If executed in the winter following Turner’s visit to Yorkshire and Farnley Hall in 1808 payment might have been put through in February 1809. If on the other hand the work dates from later that year and resulted from a summer visit to Farnley proposed elsewhere in this catalogue, the payment would fall in February 1810. ‘Fawkes note 20 Feby’ is also recorded in the Finance sketchbook (Tate D08294; CXXII 7a).

David Blayney Brown
March 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Shipping on the River Thames at Greenwich, and List of Works, Mainly for Walter Fawkes (Inscription by Turner) ?1809–10 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2007, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-shipping-on-the-river-thames-at-greenwich-and-list-of-works-r1130923, accessed 28 March 2024.