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 River Scene c.1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River Scene’ c.1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Recto:
River Scene circa 1808
D06822
Turner Bequest CII 51
Pencil on white wove paper, 76 x 115 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘51’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CII 51’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See Introduction to the sketchbook and note to folio 48 (D06814) for the discrepancy between the current folio number and Finberg’s.

David Blayney Brown
March 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘River Scene 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-river-scene-r1130915, accessed 26 April 2024.