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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Lord Mayor's Day Parade, with Men-at-Arms, Horsemen and Pennants 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lord Mayor's Day Parade, with Men-at-Arms, Horsemen and Pennants’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Verso:
Lord Mayor’s Day Parade, with Men-at-Arms, Horsemen and Pennants 1824
D17963
Turner Bequest CCVI 26a
Pencil on white wove paper, 100 x 160 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Green Dragon’ top centre and ‘Red towards top right beside pennants
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawings between folios 20 verso and 34 verso (D40967, D17979) include rapid studies and notes of barges, flags, costumes and bridges along the River Thames, and appear to record or relate to the Lord Mayor’s Day procession of 9 November 1824, as discussed in the sketchbook’s Introduction. Here part of the initial street procession is shown, with pikemen and figures on horseback in historical costume. In relation to the 1824 event, The Times reported:
The horses which drew his Lordship were very superbly caparisoned with green and yellow ribands, and emblazoned hammercloths. The two city marshals, although accustomed to the “soft phrase of peace,” looked most warlike. They headed the procession like triumphant heroes. The renowned men in armour followed, with their esquires in demi-military array, and their attendants in the costume of the days of Walworth. ... In the list, the second suit of armour is set down as having once covered the body of Henry V.1

Matthew Imms
December 2014

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The Times, 10 November 1824, p.2.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Lord Mayor’s Day Parade, with Men-at-Arms, Horsemen and Pennants 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-lord-mayors-day-parade-with-men-at-arms-horsemen-and-r1172681, accessed 25 April 2024.