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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner River Scenes 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River Scenes’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 145 Recto:
River Scenes 1826
D18475
Turner Bequest CCX 92
Stamped in black ‘CCX 92’ bottom right
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These rough and loosely executed sketches show a river valley with boats sailing; they were produced by Turner with the sketchbook turned upside down. This sheet, and its verso Tate D18476; Turner Bequest CCX 92a, was originally catalogued and bound by Finberg in the Brighton and Arundel sketchbook of c.1824 (Turner Bequest CCX). The book was then reorganised and rebound at some point after 1909, and this leaf was placed in its current position into the present sketchbook (see the Technical notes section in the sketchbook Introduction).

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘River Scenes 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-river-scenes-r1174627, accessed 25 April 2024.