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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner River Scene ?near Brielle 1835

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River Scene ?near Brielle’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 54 Recto:
River Scene ?near Brielle 1835
D32534
Turner Bequest CCCXXI 54
Pencil on off-white laid paper, 95 x 153 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘54’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXXI–54’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts a barge sailing before a harbour, possibly at or near Brielle (see Tate D32533; Turner Bequest CCCXXI 53a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2016

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘River Scene ?near Brielle 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-near-brielle-r1187345, accessed 20 April 2024.