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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cattle on the Bank of a River, with Boats Passing 1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cattle on the Bank of a River, with Boats Passing’ 1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Verso:
Cattle on the Bank of a River, with Boats Passing 1808
D06920
Turner Bequest CIV 47a
Pencil on white laid paper, 98 x 162 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted, this is one of three versions of this subject in the sketchbook and the closest to the picture (Tate N01857) which, according to Butlin and Joll, is a candidate for a ‘Sketch of Cows, &c’ exhibited at Turner’s Gallery in 1809.1 See catalogue note to folio 47 verso (D06918; Turner Bequest CIV 46a) for the drawings and fresh evidence that the picture was hanging at Tabley in 1809.

David Blayney Brown
May 2010

1
Butlin and Joll 1984, p.63 no.84 (pl.94); for the other possible exhibit, see ibid., pp.62–3 no.83 (pl.93).

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Cattle on the Bank of a River, with Boats Passing 1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2010, 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-cattle-on-the-bank-of-a-river-with-boats-passing-r1133676, accessed 25 April 2024.