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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Shipping at the Bend of a River with Wooded Banks 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Shipping at the Bend of a River with Wooded Banks’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 79 Verso:
Shipping at the Bend of a River with Wooded Banks 1798
D01593
Turner Bequest XL 77a
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘16’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XL – 77 a’ top right, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this subject, one of the sequence of very perfunctory sketches in this book, seems to be related to the studies of shipping in the contemporary Cyfarthfa sketchbook; see Tate D01657, D01658 and D01659 (Turner Bequest XLI 26, 26a, 27). The river may be the Wye, or possibly the Taff.
The subject is continued on folio 80 recto opposite (D01594; Turner Bequest XL 78), where some perpendicular pencil marks at the extreme left may be construed as a castle or other substantial building.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Shipping at the Bend of a River with Wooded Banks 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, 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-shipping-at-the-bend-of-a-river-with-wooded-banks-r1173832, accessed 26 April 2024.