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 > River and Margate Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The River Medway near Rochester or Upnor Castle c.1805-9

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The River Medway near Rochester or Upnor Castle’ c.1805-9
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Recto:
?The River Medway near Rochester or Upnor Castle circa 1805–9
D06405
Turner Bequest XCIX 28
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 115 x 190 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘28’ top right
Stamped in black ‘XCIX 28’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the same view as folio 33 recto (D06407; Turner Bequest XCIX 29), but from further away. The sketch is very slight but the river looks more like the Medway, perhaps near Upnor Castle outside Rochester, than the Thames. A large ship moored at right, seen at right, emerges more clearly on folio 33.

David Blayney Brown
March 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?The River Medway near Rochester or Upnor Castle c.1805–9 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2009, 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-river-medway-near-rochester-or-upnor-castle-r1130600, accessed 19 April 2024.