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 Shipping on the River Thames at Greenwich c.1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Shipping on the River Thames at Greenwich’ c.1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 55 Verso:
Shipping on the River Thames at Greenwich circa 1808
D06829
Turner Bequest CII 54a
Pencil on white wove paper, 76 x 115 mm
 
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. This sketch, drawn with the sketchbook inverted, continues on the inner back cover (D40668).

David Blayney Brown
March 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Shipping on the River Thames at Greenwich 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-shipping-on-the-river-thames-at-greenwich-r1130922, accessed 26 April 2024.