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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Cheshire, Derbyshire, North Wales ... > Tabley No.3 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The River Thames at Richmond; ?London Bridge; Other Sketches c.1808-25

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The River Thames at Richmond; ?London Bridge; Other Sketches’ c.1808-25
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Recto:
?The River Thames at Richmond; ?London Bridge; Other Sketches circa 1808–25
D07119
Turner Bequest CV 86
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Sheet light | bright Red light W light on the Sheet’ above images, centre, ‘Light’ below image, centre, and ‘Clothes drying very White and | ...’ above image, right
Stamped in black ‘CV 86’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Listed by Finberg as one of a batch of ‘loose leaves appear[ing] to belong to this book’ this was rebound as folio 59. Across the lower portion of the leaf there is a wide view probably of the Thames at Richmond, as proposed by Finberg, with a detail above it seemingly related to the motif of drying clothes mentioned in Turner’s inscription. On the top half of the leaf, made with the sketchbook inverted, is a much slighter outline, perhaps of London Bridge. These subjects are clearly drawn on different occasions.

David Blayney Brown
June 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?The River Thames at Richmond; ?London Bridge; Other Sketches c.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-the-river-thames-at-richmond-london-bridge-other-sketches-r1134584, accessed 26 April 2024.