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 > Greenwich Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Figures in a Boat, and a Church Tower c.1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Figures in a Boat, and a Church Tower’ c.1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Verso:
Figures in a Boat, and a Church Tower circa 1808
D06785
Turner Bequest CII 33a
Pencil on white wove paper, 76 x 115 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch, drawn with the sketchbook inverted, continues on folio 34 (D06786). Finberg’s suggestion that the church is St. Michael’s at Bray is unconfirmed; the spire shown by Turner is not present on the tower of the church today.

David Blayney Brown
March 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Figures in a Boat, and a Church Tower c.1808 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-figures-in-a-boat-and-a-church-tower-r1130878, accessed 26 April 2024.