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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > Windsor and Eton Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Deck of a Barge, with Bargemen Hanging Cloths c.1806-8

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Deck of a Barge, with Bargemen Hanging Cloths’ c.1806-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 67 Verso:
Deck of a Barge, with Bargemen Hanging Cloths circa 1806–8
D06144
Turner Bequest XCVII 67a
Pencil on white wove paper, 107 x 182 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Bargemen hanging up clouts, &c, on the shrouds ... good incident to | avoid the long line of shrouds’ above image
Stamped in black ‘XCVII 67a’ top right, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. For barges in this sketchbook, see note to folio 23 (D06094). Turner’s memorandum on this example is described by Wilkinson as ‘the practical artist [making] an unusually explicit note to himself’, and shows him picking up on effects that might help him to avoid pictorial monotony.

David Blayney Brown
September 2008

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Deck of a Barge, with Bargemen Hanging Cloths c.1806–8 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2008, 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-deck-of-a-barge-with-bargemen-hanging-cloths-r1130325, accessed 20 September 2024.