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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Riverside Buildings, ?Paris 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Riverside Buildings, ?Paris’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Recto:
Riverside Buildings, ?Paris 1832
D24242
Turner Bequest CCLVII 39
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘39’ bottom right and ‘2’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 39’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much of this page with small cursory sketches of a bridge and substantial buildings lining a river or canal. Turner made several drawings of the Parisian riverside in the present volume providing a possible location for these structures. For comparisons, see the list of Parisian riverside studies in the sketchbook Introduction. The rear end of a pack animal has been drawn over these landscape views on the left-hand side of the page.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Riverside Buildings, ?Paris 1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, 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-buildings-paris-r1175270, accessed 20 September 2024.