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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View on a River, with Boats and Distant Buildings 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View on a River, with Boats and Distant Buildings’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Verso:
View on a River, with Boats and Distant Buildings 1796–7
D01197
Turner Bequest XXXVII 80
Gouache on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 113 x 93 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 80’ top right, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the composition continues across folio 40 recto opposite (D01198; Turner Bequest XXXVII 81). This is probably a scene on the Thames, with the towers of Westminster Abbey in the left distance and Chelsea Church at the right, seen from Battersea.

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View on a River, with Boats and Distant Buildings 1796–7 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-view-on-a-river-with-boats-and-distant-buildings-r1149887, accessed 26 April 2024.