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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > Greenwich Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The City of London from the River Thames, and Riverside Buildings c.1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The City of London from the River Thames, and Riverside Buildings’ c.1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Recto:
The City of London from the River Thames, and Riverside Buildings circa 1808
D06762
Turner Bequest CII 22
Pencil on white wove paper, 76 x 115 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘22’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CII 22’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches are continued on folio 21 verso (D06761), for which see note.

David Blayney Brown
March 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The City of London from the River Thames, and Riverside Buildings c.1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2007, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-city-of-london-from-the-river-thames-and-riverside-r1130855, accessed 23 April 2024.