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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner River Scene ?around the Biesbosch 1835

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River Scene ?around the Biesbosch’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 46 Verso:
River Scene ?around the Biesbosch 1835
D32524
Turner Bequest CCCXXI 46
Pencil on off-white laid paper, 153 x 95 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch may show the Biesbosch, an area of wetland and forest on the River Merwede near Dordrecht. During Turner’s tour of this region sawmills operated on the banks of the Merwede at Biesbosch; these are presumably the towers and buildings depicted here (see Tate D32514, D32516; Turner Bequest CCCXXI 37a, 38a).
Recto:
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘46’ and stamped in black ‘CCCXXI–40’, bottom right.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2016

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘River Scene ?around the Biesbosch 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-river-scene-around-the-biesbosch-r1187337, accessed 05 April 2026.