Joseph Mallord William Turner

City Barges in the Lord Mayor’s Day Pageant on the River Thames off the Palace of Westminster

1824

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 100 x 160 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D17977
Turner Bequest CCVI 33 a

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 the pageant is arriving for the Lord Mayor’s swearing-in at the Palace of Westminster. Westminster Hall is lightly outlined on the left; compare the more detailed treatment on the recto (D17976), and see also folios 34 recto and verso (D17978, D17979).

Matthew Imms
December 2014

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