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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Boats, with Figures on Shore, Possibly at Greenwich 1825

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Boats, with Figures on Shore, Possibly at Greenwich’ 1825
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Verso:
Boats, with Figures on Shore, Possibly at Greenwich 1825
D18784
Turner Bequest CCXIII 52a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 187 mm
Part watermark ‘R Bar | 18’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this drawing is one of two facing each other (see also folio 53 recto opposite; D18785) but otherwise isolated within a long run of blank pages. There are no topographical clues here in what appears to be a busy shore scene, with a detail of a covered barge above. D18785 may show the river frontage of Greenwich Hospital, so the present view may also be beside the River Thames in the vicinity.

Matthew Imms
December 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Boats, with Figures on Shore, Possibly at Greenwich 1825 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-boats-with-figures-on-shore-possibly-at-greenwich-r1172906, accessed 26 April 2024.