Joseph Mallord William Turner The River Thames near Isleworth: Punt and Barges in the Foreground 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The River Thames near Isleworth: Punt and Barges in the Foreground 1805
D05953
Turner Bequest XCV 49
Turner Bequest XCV 49
Pencil and watercolour with scratching out on white wove paper, 258 x 365 mm
Stamped in black ‘XCV 49’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XCV 49’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Exhibition history
1869
Second Loan Collection, various venues, 1869–1931 (152), as ‘The Thames’.
1933
Four Screens, British Museum, London, June 1933–July 1934 (frame 5, as ‘Scene on the Thames’).
1959
Display of Watercolours from the Turner Bequest, Tate Gallery, London, June/July 1959–January 1965 (no number).
1972
La Peinture romantique anglaise et les Préraphaelites, Petit Palais, Paris, January–April 1972 (286 reproduced).
1974
Turner 1775–1851, Royal Academy of Arts, London, November 1974–March 1975 (114).
1975
Turner 1775–1851 zhivopis', risunok, akvarel', Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, October–November 1975, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, December 1975–January 1976 (9).
1976
William Turner und die Landschaft seiner Zeit, Hamburger Kunsthalle, May–July 1976 (19).
1978
¿¿¿¿¿¿, Shipka Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, circa April 1978, Belgrade, Serbia [former Yugoslavia], May 1978, Muzeul de Arte al RS [Republica Socialista] Romania, Bucharest, June–July 1978 (14).
1980
Turner 1775–1851: Drawings and Watercolours of British River Scenes from the British Museum, Bankside Gallery, London, 1980 (35).
1981
J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) / ¿¿.¿.G. ¿e¿¿e¿ (1775–1851), National Pinakothiki, Athens, January–March 1981 (12).
1988
Summer Miscellany: Watercolours from the Turner Bequest, Tate Gallery, London, July–October 1988 (no number).
2007
Hockney on Turner Watercolours, Tate Britain, London, June 2007–February 2008 (no number).
References
1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.247, XCV 49, as ‘Scene on the Thames, with barges and figures’.
1964
John Rothenstein and Martin Butlin, Turner, London 1964, p.23, reproduced pl.33.
1974
Martin Butlin, Andrew Wilton and John Gage, Turner 1775–1851, exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1974, pp.59, 63.
1975
Graham Reynolds, Turner 1775–1851 zhivopis', risunok, akvarel', exhibition catalogue, Hermitage Museum, Leningrad 1975, p.58 reproduced.
1976
Werner Haftmann, Andrew Wilton, Siegmar Hosten and others, William Turner und die Landschaft seiner Zeit, exhibition catalogue, Hamburger Kunsthalle 1976, pp.15, 65 reproduced, 146.
1980
Michael Spender and Malcolm Fry, Turner at the Bankside Gallery: Catalogue of an Exhibition of Drawings & Water-colours of British River Scenes from the British Museum, exhibition catalogue, Bankside Gallery, London 1980, pp.78, 79 reproduced in colour and on front cover.
1980
Turner’s England: Twelve Watercolours, London 1980, pp.2,3 reproduced.
1981
Dimitrios Papastamos, John Gage and Lindsay Stainton, J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) / ¿¿.¿.G. ¿e¿¿e¿ (1775–1851), exhibition catalogue, National Pinakothiki, Athens 1981, p.72 reproduced in colour (also on front cover).
1991
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.45.
1993
David Hill, Turner on the Thames: River Journeys in the Year 1805, New Haven and London 1993, pp.45, 47 reproduced in colour pl.51, 170, as ‘Thames near Isleworth’.
2001
David Hill, ‘Thames Sketches, 1805’, in Evelyn Joll, Martin Butlin and Luke Herrmann eds., The Oxford Companion to J.M.W. Turner, Oxford 2001, p.334.
2007
David Blayney Brown, Turner Watercolours, London 2007, p.42 reproduced in colour.
This is a right-hand page from the sketchbook. The exact position on the river near Isleworth is uncertain; it could be close to Turner’s Sion (or Syon) Ferry House or further away if a building behind the barges in the right distance is the Pavilion in Syon Park. A heavy shower approaches from the right and men are hauling a canvas cover over the cargo of a boat.
Verso:
Blank, save for trials of red watercolour. Variously inscribed in pencil, ‘152 erased’, ‘561’, ‘29’, ‘XCV 49’, ‘Loan 152’.
David Blayney Brown
February 2009
How to cite
David Blayney Brown, ‘The River Thames near Isleworth: Punt and Barges in the Foreground 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www