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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Margate and Life Drawing c.1830-40 > The Fire at Sea Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Riverside with Buildings c.1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Riverside with Buildings’ c.1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Recto:
Riverside with Buildings c.1834
D27792
Turner Bequest CCLXXXII 1
Watercolour on brownish-grey wove paper 139 x 228 mm
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLXXXII 1’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This colour sketch of a waterside terrain is one of several in this sketchbook. For more information, see the sketchbook introduction.
Technical notes:
This leaf was removed for exhibition in the late nineteenth century and subsequently reincorporated into the sketchbook in its original position.1 Darker margins around the edge of the leaf indicate prolonged exposure to light.
1
Ian Warrell, ‘R.N. Wornum and the First Three Loan Collections: A History of the Early Display of the Turner Bequest Outside London’, Turner Studies, vol.11, no.1, Summer 1991, p.40 no.25, as ‘Landscape’.
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John Chu
March 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Riverside with Buildings c.1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-riverside-with-buildings-r1181653, accessed 22 November 2024.