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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > Hesperides (1) Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Boats on the Thames near Isleworth 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Boats on the Thames near Isleworth’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Verso:
Boats on the Thames near Isleworth 1805
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Turner Bequest XCIII 27a
Pen and ink and brown wash, with scratching out, on white wove paper, prepared with a grey wash, 171 x 262 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Hill suggests this is the view from Sion (or Syon) Ferry House, looking upstream from near Isleworth wharf with the towpath on the opposite bank, and the London Apprentice inn and the church to the right. Two barges are being unloaded to a waiting wagon at low tide.

David Blayney Brown
October 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Boats on the Thames near Isleworth 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 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-boats-on-the-thames-near-isleworth-r1130033, accessed 20 April 2024.