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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner City Barges in the Lord Mayor's Day Pageant on the River Thames 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘City Barges in the Lord Mayor's Day Pageant on the River Thames’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Recto:
City Barges in the Lord Mayor’s Day Pageant on the River Thames 1824
D17970
Turner Bequest CCVI 30
Pencil on white wove paper, 100 x 160 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Blue [?&] w [?Prow] | Fish mon[...] Boat | w Pink Blue & [...] | Grocer Red Jacket w Dow[...]’ top centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘30’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCVI – 30’ 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 there are two separate studies, the main view focusing on the sterns of three City barges adorned with flags below, with a thumbnail sketch of masts and flags at the top right.

Matthew Imms
December 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘City Barges in the Lord Mayor’s Day Pageant on the River Thames 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-city-barges-in-the-lord-mayors-day-pageant-on-the-river-r1172688, accessed 26 April 2024.