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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bargemen Putting up an Awning 1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bargemen Putting up an Awning’ 1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Verso:
Bargemen Putting up an Awning 1809
D07946
Turner Bequest CXIII 60a
Pencil on white wove paper, 83 x 114 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Bargemen Putting up their Awning’ below image
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted, and continued on folio 61 (D07947). As Turner stayed at Cassiobury Park, near Watford, on his way north in 1809, this was probably sketched on the Grand Union Canal nearby.

David Blayney Brown
August 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Bargemen Putting up an Awning 1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2009, 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-bargemen-putting-up-an-awning-r1135902, accessed 24 April 2024.