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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Lord Mayor's Day Pageant on the River Thames at Blackfriars Bridge or Waterloo Bridge 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Lord Mayor's Day Pageant on the River Thames at Blackfriars Bridge or Waterloo Bridge’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Verso:
The Lord Mayor’s Day Pageant on the River Thames at Blackfriars Bridge or Waterloo Bridge 1824
D17965
Turner Bequest CCVI 27a
Pencil on white wove paper, 100 x 160 mm
Watermark ‘1821’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘yellow’ top left
 
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 two slight studies on the left show boats and flags under the arch of a bridge; at the top right boats pass under a bridge with slight indications of coupled columns; it could be either Blackfriars Bridge or Waterloo Bridge as they then were. The Lord Mayor’s short voyage up-river to Westminster began at the former and passed under the latter. See also folios 27 recto and 28 recto opposite (D17964, D17966); the latter apparently shows the same bridge.

Matthew Imms
December 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Lord Mayor’s Day Pageant on the River Thames at Blackfriars Bridge or Waterloo Bridge 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-the-lord-mayors-day-pageant-on-the-river-thames-at-r1172683, accessed 25 April 2024.