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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Wooded River Scene, Probably on the Thames, with Figures and Boats c.1823-4

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Wooded River Scene, Probably on the Thames, with Figures and Boats’ c.1823-4
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Verso:
A Wooded River Scene, Probably on the Thames, with Figures and Boats c.1823–4
D17804
Turner Bequest CCIV 25a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 190 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There are figures resting among the trees on the left, perhaps having come ashore from the boat or barge with an awning moored in the middle distance. There are more figures lightly indicated in a boat out on the water. Buildings are indicated on the skyline among the woods on the opposite bank, but there is little to enable a specific identification, although a rural reach of the River Thames is the likely location. For other Thames views, see under folio 2 recto (D17775).

Matthew Imms
November 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Wooded River Scene, Probably on the Thames, with Figures and Boats c.1823–4 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-wooded-river-scene-probably-on-the-thames-with-figures-and-r1172512, accessed 18 September 2024.