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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > French Tour 1821 > Paris, Seine and Dieppe Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner River Scene, with Boats 1821

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River Scene, with Boats’ 1821
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Recto:
River Scene, with Boats 1821
D18580
Turner Bequest CCXI 36
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCXI – 36’ top left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted is a sketch of a river scene with several boats. This is likely to have been sketched as Turner travelled by boat along the Seine from Rouen to Dieppe. For a full list of Turner’s sketches of shipping in this book, see folio 1 (D18525; Turner Bequest CCXI 1).

Thomas Ardill
February 2013

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘River Scene, with Boats 1821 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-river-scene-with-boats-r1146274, accessed 26 April 2024.