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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Barges on a River: Bridge and Church Beyond 1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Barges on a River: Bridge and Church Beyond’ 1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
Barges on a River: Bridge and Church Beyond 1808
D07152
Turner Bequest CVI 16
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil with colour notes, ‘light’, ‘shade’, ‘light’ lower left, ‘grey’ and ‘warm grey’ in sky, centre, ‘shore darkest’ lower right of centre
Inscribed ?by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘303’ bottom right and ‘16’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CVI 16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Together with a related inscription on folio 15 verso of the sketchbook (D07151) describing incident including ‘Milk carriers to Manchester’, Wilkinson associates this subject with the Cheshire bank of the River Mersey. However, adjacent subjects are on the River Trent or the Trent and Mersey Canal south of Derby (folios 14 and 15, D07149, D07150). There is a similar subject on folio 29 (D07165).
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David Blayney Brown
July 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Barges on a River: Bridge and Church Beyond 1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2010, 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-barges-on-a-river-bridge-and-church-beyond-r1129578, accessed 25 April 2024.