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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A River Flowing through a Wooded Valley; Shipping near London Bridge 1808-25

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A River Flowing through a Wooded Valley; Shipping near London Bridge’ 1808-25
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Recto:
A River Flowing through a Wooded Valley; Shipping near London Bridge 1808–25
D07022
Turner Bequest CV 30
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘30’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CV 30’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The river in the main subject here, running through a wooded valley, is unidentified. At lower left, there is a slight extension of the view of the Thames and St Paul’s Cathedral on folio 32 verso (D07021; Turner Bequest CV 29a). See Introduction to the sketchbook for plans in the mid 1820s for a series of London subjects, including the Custom House and London Bridge.

David Blayney Brown
June 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A River Flowing through a Wooded Valley; Shipping near London Bridge 1808–25 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-a-river-flowing-through-a-wooded-valley-shipping-near-london-r1134543, accessed 26 April 2024.