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 > Greenwich Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The River Thames and Greenwich, from Greenwich Park c.1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The River Thames and Greenwich, from Greenwich Park’ c.1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Recto:
The River Thames and Greenwich, from Greenwich Park circa 1808
D06814
Turner Bequest CII 47b
Pencil on white wove paper, 76 x 115 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin ‘47b’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CII 47b’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. These two sketches continue the view of Greenwich Park on folio 47 verso (D06813) further to the left. Ruskin and then Finberg numbered both this and the preceding folio 47, giving the two sides of this sheet b and c numbers. It is in fact folio 48. See also Introduction to the sketchbook.

David Blayney Brown
March 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The River Thames and Greenwich, from Greenwich Park 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-the-river-thames-and-greenwich-from-greenwich-park-r1130907, accessed 25 April 2024.