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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Barge Pulled by Two Horses, with Other Vessels in the Background 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Barge Pulled by Two Horses, with Other Vessels in the Background’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 183 Verso:
A Barge Pulled by Two Horses, with Other Vessels in the Background 1801
D03626
Turner Bequest LIX 183a
Pencil on white wove paper, 92 x 156 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. There are further drawings of barges on a canal on folios 184 verso and 185 verso (D03628, D03630); see the entry for the latter.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Barge Pulled by Two Horses, with Other Vessels in the Background 1801 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 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-barge-pulled-by-two-horses-with-other-vessels-in-the-r1179764, accessed 25 April 2024.