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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings by the River Thames, and a Detail of the Royal Hospital, Greenwich c.1808

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Recto:
Buildings by the River Thames, and a Detail of the Royal Hospital, Greenwich circa 1808
D06760
Turner Bequest CII 21
Pencil on white wove paper, 76 x 115 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘double Parapet’ top right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘21’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CII 21’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This leaf has a panorama of riverside buildings, continued across folio 20 verso (D06759), and a detail of a tower and cupola of the Royal Hospital above and a slight sketch of further buildings below.

David Blayney Brown
March 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Buildings by the River Thames, and a Detail of the Royal Hospital, Greenwich 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-buildings-by-the-river-thames-and-a-detail-of-the-royal-r1130853, accessed 28 March 2024.