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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Wharves and Shipping in the Pool of London below Old London Bridge, with St Paul's Cathedral Beyond ?1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wharves and Shipping in the Pool of London below Old London Bridge, with St Paul's Cathedral Beyond’ ?1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Verso:
Wharves and Shipping in the Pool of London below Old London Bridge, with St Paul’s Cathedral Beyond ?1824
D17865
Turner Bequest CCV 16a
Pencil on white wove paper, 98 x 162 mm
Part watermark ‘lls | 1’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view is past shipping in the Pool of London, west up the River Thames to Old London Bridge and beyond to St Paul’s Cathedral. At the right is the tower of St Magnus the Martyr’s Church, and the drawing continues a little way across folio 17 recto opposite (D17866). It is also continued to the left, with the south bank waterfront, on folio 15 verso (D17863).
More than half the drawings in this sketchbook show the River Thames around Old London Bridge, and are likely to date from 1824; see the Introduction.

Matthew Imms
December 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Wharves and Shipping in the Pool of London below Old London Bridge, with St Paul’s Cathedral Beyond ?1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-wharves-and-shipping-in-the-pool-of-london-below-old-london-r1172576, accessed 20 September 2024.