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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cattle on the Bank of a River, with Boats Passing 1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cattle on the Bank of a River, with Boats Passing’ 1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Verso:
Cattle on the Bank of a River, with Boats Passing 1808
D06922
Turner Bequest CIV 48a
Pencil on white laid paper, 98 x 162 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted, and continued on folio 50 (D06923; Turner Bequest CIV 49) this is one of three versions of this subject in the sketchbook and related to the picture (Tate N01857) which, according to Butlin and Joll, is a candidate for a ‘Sketch of Cows, &c’ exhibited at Turner’s Gallery in 1809.1 See catalogue note to folio 47 verso (D06918; Turner Bequest CIV 46a) for the drawings and fresh evidence that the picture was hanging at Tabley in 1809.

David Blayney Brown
May 2010

1
Butlin and Joll 1984, p.63 no.84 (pl.94); for the other possible exhibit, see ibid., pp.62–3 no.83 (pl.93).

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Cattle on the Bank of a River, with Boats Passing 1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2010, 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-cattle-on-the-bank-of-a-river-with-boats-passing-r1133678, accessed 23 September 2024.