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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Work for Earls Egremont and Lonsdale ... > Kirkstall Lock Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner River Scene, with Carpenters at Work Mending a Sluice 1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River Scene, with Carpenters at Work Mending a Sluice’ 1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
River Scene, with Carpenters at Work Mending a Sluice 1809
D12258
Turner Bequest CLV 17
Pencil on white wove paper, 186 x 226 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Carpenters at work mending the sluice’
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘17’, bottom right
Stamped in black in ‘CLV 17’, bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Although the numbering of this sketch places it among Kirkstall subjects, Finberg did not title it as such. The wide river valley and possible canal-side subject matter might equally place it amongst the Cassiobury and Grand Union Canal/Colne Valley subjects also from the sketchbook. See note to D12241; Turner Bequest CLV 2. The varied sky, and the interest in working activity associates it most closely with D12243, D12247; Turner Bequest CLV 4, 6.
Verso:
Not visible since stuck down.

David Hill
June 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘River Scene, with Carpenters at Work Mending a Sluice 1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2009, 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-river-scene-with-carpenters-at-work-mending-a-sluice-r1134670, accessed 22 November 2024.