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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > French Tour 1821 > Paris, Seine and Dieppe Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Scenes on River 1821

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Scenes on River’ 1821
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Verso:
Scenes on River 1821
D18586
Turner Bequest CCXI 39a
Pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘cows’ lower left, ‘w the Boys on the Bank’ upper right, ‘g[...]’ right centre, ‘Boat with small | Sale white’ beneath the second sketch left, ‘Boat p[...] for | Fishing’ beneath the second sketch right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There are three sketches on this page of a river with tree-lined banks. A thumbnail composition of a similar looking landscape on folio 41 (Tate D18589; Turner Bequest CCXI 41) is labelled ‘Twickenham’.
The top sketch depicts a boat with two figures. Turner has noted, rather than drawing, ‘cows’ at the left ‘w[ith] Boys on the Bank’. The second sketch depicts an angler on the riverbank at the bottom right foreground with trees reflected in the water. Beneath the sketch are the notes: ‘Boat with small | Sale white’ at the left, and ‘Boat p[...] for | Fishing’. Finally at the bottom of the page is another sketch of the riverbanks which continues on the opposite sketchbook page: folio 40 (Tate D18587; Turner Bequest CCXI 40).

Thomas Ardill
March 2013

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Scenes on River 1821 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-scenes-on-river-r1146280, accessed 18 April 2024.