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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?River Medway, Kent c.1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?River Medway, Kent’ c.1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Recto:
?River Medway, Kent c.1832
D27355
Turner Bequest CCLXXIX 47
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 206 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘47’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIX 47’ top right, ascending vertically
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally Turner filled this page with a study of a river, which A.J. Finberg suggested may depict the Medway in Kent.1 For more information on the Kentish scenes in this volume, see the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
March 2015

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A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.887

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?River Medway, Kent c.1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-river-medway-kent-r1181491, accessed 20 April 2024.