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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Trees by the River Thames at Barnes, with Hammersmith Bridge Beyond c.1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Trees by the River Thames at Barnes, with Hammersmith Bridge Beyond’ c.1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Verso:
Trees by the River Thames at Barnes, with Hammersmith Bridge Beyond c.1827
D22446
Turner Bequest CCXL 64a
Pencil on white wove paper, 68 x 110 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this sketch continues on folio 63 verso opposite (D22444). It includes the outlines of the twin toll-booths and Tuscan archway at the southern end of Hammersmith Bridge, looking north-west through trees on the rural Barnes bank of the River Thames. As discussed under folio 58 verso (D22434), where other Hammersmith views are mentioned, Turner’s studies of the bridge seem to have a rather provisional air, and may show it still under construction before its October 1827 opening. The trees appear to continue a little way onto folio 65 recto opposite (D22447).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Trees by the River Thames at Barnes, with Hammersmith Bridge Beyond c.1827 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-trees-by-the-river-thames-at-barnes-with-hammersmith-bridge-r1148596, accessed 25 April 2024.