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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Town on a River 1802-3

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Verso:
Town on a River 1802–3
D04793
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 240 mm
Inscribed by an unknown hand in black ink ‘22’ (within a circle) top left, inverted
Inscribed by an unknown hand in blue pencil ‘209’ lower right of centre, inverted
This sketch (made with the sketchbook inverted) seems to show the same town or village in a river valley (probably the Thames), with a church or similar tower, as folio 37 of this sketchbook (D04779). It was not visible to Finberg, the leaf having been removed from the book and laid down to display the recto (D04792) for exhibition at Oxford.

David Blayney Brown
March 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Town on a River 1802–3 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2004, 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-town-on-a-river-r1133497, accessed 29 March 2024.