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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner River with Shipping 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River with Shipping’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Verso:
River with Shipping 1831
D25759
Turner Bequest CCLXV 64a
Pencil on white wove paper, 59 x 96 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted is a view of shipping on a river with buildings in the background, with a smaller sketch above of figures in a boat with a church spire on the river bank to the right. There are several pages of shipping subjects scattered throughout this sketchbook (for references see folio 10; D25659). Some of these may have been made on the Mersey at Liverpool as there are views of Liverpool from across the Mersey in this sketchbook (folio 3 verso; D25648).

Thomas Ardill
May 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘River with Shipping 1831 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-river-with-shipping-r1134123, accessed 20 September 2024.