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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Banks of the River Thames c.1808

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Verso:
Banks of the River Thames circa 1808
D06789
Turner Bequest CII 35a
Pencil on white wove paper, 76 x 115 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These two strips of Thames riverbank, drawn with the sketchbook inverted, continue on folio 36 (D06790). Rural and wooded, they are presumably to the west of London.

David Blayney Brown
March 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Banks of the River Thames 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-banks-of-the-river-thames-r1130882, accessed 28 March 2024.