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 off the Palace of Westminster 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘City Barges in the Lord Mayor's Day Pageant on the River Thames off the Palace of Westminster’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Verso:
City Barges in the Lord Mayor’s Day Pageant on the River Thames off the Palace of Westminster 1824
D17979
Turner Bequest CCVI 34a
Pencil on white wove paper, 100 x 160 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawings between folios 20 verso (D40967) and this page 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. Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, here City barges are shown berthed off the Palace of Westminster for the Lord Mayor’s swearing-in. Westminster Hall is outlined on the left, with the towers of Westminster Abbey beyond. Above is a slight sketch of barges. Compare the sketches on folios 33 recto–34 recto (D17976–D17978); the subject is discussed in more detail under the first of these.

Matthew Imms
December 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘City Barges in the Lord Mayor’s Day Pageant on the River Thames off the Palace of Westminster 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-r1172697, accessed 19 April 2024.