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 > Greenwich Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Men in a Punt, Fishing for Lampreys c.1808

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Men in a Punt, Fishing for Lampreys’ c.1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Verso:
Men in a Punt, Fishing for Lampreys circa 1808
D06783
Turner Bequest CII 32a
Pencil on white wove paper, 76 x 115 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Driving down Lampreys Stops’ bottom right, and ‘... brown’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. Wilkinson imagines these fishermen ‘in some muddy estuary such as Barking Creek, which eels now shun’.

David Blayney Brown
March 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Men in a Punt, Fishing for Lampreys 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-men-in-a-punt-fishing-for-lampreys-r1130876, accessed 19 April 2024.