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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner City Barges in the Lord Mayor's Day Pageant on the River Thames off the Palace of Westminster 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘City Barges in the Lord Mayor's Day Pageant on the River Thames off the Palace of Westminster’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Verso:
City Barges in the Lord Mayor’s Day Pageant on the River Thames off the Palace of Westminster 1824
D17977
Turner Bequest CCVI 33a
Pencil on white wove paper, 100 x 160 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Red’ right of centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawings between folios 20 verso and 34 verso (D40967, D17979) include rapid studies and notes of barges, flags, costumes and bridges along the River Thames, and appear to record or relate to the Lord Mayor’s Day procession of 9 November 1824, as discussed in the sketchbook’s Introduction. Here the pageant is arriving for the Lord Mayor’s swearing-in at the Palace of Westminster. Westminster Hall is lightly outlined on the left; compare the more detailed treatment on the recto (D17976), and see also folios 34 recto and verso (D17978, D17979).

Matthew Imms
December 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘City Barges in the Lord Mayor’s Day Pageant on the River Thames off the Palace of Westminster 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-city-barges-in-the-lord-mayors-day-pageant-on-the-river-r1172695, accessed 25 April 2024.