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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Barges Unloading; Church Tower among Trees Beyond 1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Barges Unloading; Church Tower among Trees Beyond’ 1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Recto :
Barges Unloading; Church Tower among Trees Beyond 1808
D07165
Turner Bequest CVI 29
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘E[?nd] of Boat relieved by Shade on the Right’ lower left of centre and ‘water light...’ lower right of centre
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘303’ bottom right and ‘29’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CVI 29’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Other drawings in this sketchbook (folios 14 and 15, D07149, D07150) are on the River Trent or the Trent and Mersey Canal south of Derby but this subject is not yet identified. There is a similar subject on folio 16 (D07152).
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David Blayney Brown
July 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Barges Unloading; Church Tower among Trees Beyond 1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2010, 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-barges-unloading-church-tower-among-trees-beyond-r1129591, accessed 26 April 2024.