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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Riverside or Canal Scenes at ?Ghent or Bruges 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Riverside or Canal Scenes at ?Ghent or Bruges’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 172 Verso:
Riverside or Canal Scenes at ?Ghent or Bruges 1824
D19884
Turner Bequest CCXVI 166 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘?Toll’ top left; ‘2 | ?green W’ towards bottom right; ‘L[...]’ bottom centre towards right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner fills the page with an array of cursory and swiftly executed studies of a group of locals by a river or canal, a horse-drawn cart, boats, a man fishing, and a river barge laden with cargo. The location may be the Flemish cities of Bruges or Ghent. Similar sketches are found on the folio opposite (Tate D19885–D19886; Turner Bequest CCXVI 167–167a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Riverside or Canal Scenes at ?Ghent or Bruges 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-riverside-or-canal-scenes-at-ghent-or-bruges-r1174679, accessed 21 September 2024.