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 at Greenwich c.1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The River Thames at Greenwich’ c.1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 54 Recto:
The River Thames at Greenwich circa 1808
D06826
Turner Bequest CII 53
Pencil on white wove paper, 76 x 115 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘10’ and ‘25’ top centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘53’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CII 53’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See Introduction to the sketchbook and note to folio 48 (D06814) for the discrepancy between the current folio number and Finberg’s. This sketch, drawn with the sketchbook inverted, continues on folio 53 verso (D06825).

David Blayney Brown
March 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The River Thames at 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-the-river-thames-at-greenwich-r1130919, accessed 18 April 2024.