Joseph Mallord William Turner

A City Barge in the Lord Mayor’s Day Pageant on the River Thames Approaching Westminster Bridge

1824

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
London Bridge and Portsmouth Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 100 × 160 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D17974
Turner Bequest CCVI 32

Catalogue entry

The drawings between folios 20 verso and 34 verso (D40967, D17979) include rapid studies and notes of barges, flags, costumes and bridges along the River Thames, and appear to record or relate to the Lord Mayor’s Day procession of 9 November 1824, as discussed in the sketchbook’s Introduction. Here Westminster Bridge is seen from the north-east, with the Palace of Westminster schematically rendered beyond. The river appears empty, but the grouping of small squares to the right presumably indicates flags flying from a City barge.

Matthew Imms
December 2014

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