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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > Hesperides (2) Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Boats on the Thames, ?Richmond Bridge 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Boats on the Thames, ?Richmond Bridge’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Verso:
Boats on the Thames, ?Richmond Bridge 1805
D05863
Turner Bequest XCIV 11a
Pencil on white wove paper, prepared with a grey wash, 143 x 228 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A very slight sketch. Hill’s suggestion that Richmond Bridge is discernible in the middle distance is convincing as it certainly appears in the sketch facing on folio 12 (D05864).

David Blayney Brown
December 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Boats on the Thames, ?Richmond Bridge 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2007, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-boats-on-the-thames-richmond-bridge-r1130086, accessed 24 November 2024.