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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Figures with a Boat beside the River Thames, Probably at Putney c.1827

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Figures with a Boat beside the River Thames, Probably at Putney’ c.1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 71 Verso:
Figures with a Boat beside the River Thames, Probably at Putney c.1827
D22460
Turner Bequest CCXL 71a
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 68 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, these studies of figures and small boats were perhaps, like those on folio 69 recto and verso (D22455, D22456) made on the south bank of the River Thames at Putney. For other views along the Thames between the bridges at Hammersmith and Putney, see under folio 58 verso (D22434).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Figures with a Boat beside the River Thames, Probably at Putney c.1827 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-figures-with-a-boat-beside-the-river-thames-probably-at-r1148610, accessed 16 April 2024.