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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Boats in the Pool of London, with Old London Bridge and Southwark Cathedral Beyond ?1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Boats in the Pool of London, with Old London Bridge and Southwark Cathedral Beyond’ ?1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 42 Verso:
Boats in the Pool of London, with Old London Bridge and Southwark Cathedral Beyond ?1824
D17908
Turner Bequest CCV 42a
Pencil on white wove paper, 98 x 162 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Beyond the boats in the foreground, Old London Bridge is seen up the River Thames with the tower of Southwark Cathedral to the south-west. Compare the left-hand side of the 1824 watercolour known as The Port of London (Victoria and Albert Museum, London),1 engraved in 1827 as Old London Bridge and Vicinity (Tate impression: T06070); see the overall Introduction to the present Thames-related section.
More than half the drawings in this sketchbook show the River Thames around Old London Bridge, and are likely to date from 1824; see the sketchbook’s Introduction.

Matthew Imms
December 2014

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.358 no.514, reproduced.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Boats in the Pool of London, with Old London Bridge and Southwark Cathedral Beyond ?1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 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-boats-in-the-pool-of-london-with-old-london-bridge-and-r1172622, accessed 27 April 2024.