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 28 Recto:
The Lord Mayor’s Day Pageant on the River Thames at Blackfriars Bridge or Waterloo Bridge 1824
D17966
Turner Bequest CCVI 28
Pencil on white wove paper, 100 x 160 mm
Watermark ‘1821’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘28’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCVI – 28’ bottom right
 
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 boats are shown passing 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 verso (D17964, D17965); the latter apparently shows the same bridge.
In the centre above are details of banners and associated notes: ‘Draper yellow Boat’, ‘[?Draper] yellow’ and ‘Red’.

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-r1172684, accessed 24 April 2024.