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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?On the River Thames above Marlow 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?On the River Thames above Marlow’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
?On the River Thames above Marlow 1805
D05935
Turner Bequest XCV 31
Pencil on white wove paper, 258 x 370 mm
Stamped in black ‘XCV 31’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Hill relates this to another leaf from this sketchbook, possibly of the same stretch of river (Tate
D05941; Turner Bequest XCV 37), and notes that marks on the paper suggest that they were originally adjacent with this one coming after the other which may itself have followed another possible view near Marlow (Tate D05910; Turner Bequest XCV 6).
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David Blayney Brown
February 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?On the River Thames above Marlow 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2009, 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-on-the-river-thames-above-marlow-r1129967, accessed 25 April 2024.