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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Riverside with Buildings c.1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Riverside with Buildings’ c.1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 43 Recto:
Riverside with Buildings c.1834
D27845
Turner Bequest CCLXXXII 43
Watercolour and gouache on brownish grey wove paper, 139 x 228 mm
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLXXXII 41’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Exhibitions:
Second Loan Collection selected from the Turner Bequest, various venues and dates 1869–1931 (no catalogue but numbered 26, as ‘Landscape’)
This colour sketch of a waterside terrain is one of several in this sketchbook. For more information, see the sketchbook introduction.
Technical notes:
This leaf was removed for exhibition in the late nineteenth century and subsequently reincorporated into the sketchbook in its original position.1 A dark margin on the right hand edge of the page indicates prolonged exposure to light.
1
Ian Warrell, ‘R.N. Wornum and the First Three Loan Collections: A History of the Early Display of the Turner Bequest Outside London’, Turner Studies, vol.11, no.1, Summer 1991, p.43.
Verso:
The verso is inscribed in pencil with the notes ‘6’ and ‘35’.

John Chu
March 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Riverside with Buildings c.1834 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-riverside-with-buildings-r1181705, accessed 21 September 2024.