Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Scenes on the River Thames, Two with Eel-Pots 1808-10
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Recto:
Three Scenes on the River Thames, Two with Eel-Pots 1808–10
D07130
Turner Bequest CV 92
Turner Bequest CV 92
Pencil on white wove paper, 185 x 108 mm
Stamped in black ‘CV 92’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CV 92’ top right, running vertically
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Exhibition history
1891
Fourth Loan Collection, Ruskin Art Museum, Meersbrook Park, Sheffield, 1891–5, Leeds Art Gallery, 1896, National Gallery, London, 1897, Glasgow Art Gallery, 1898–9, National Gallery, London, 1900, Newport Free Library and Museum, 1901–4, Wolverhampton, 1905, Municipal School of Art, Manchester, 1906–8, Nottingham Art Gallery, 1909–11, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1912, York City Art Gallery, 1913, Corporation Art Gallery, Bury, 1913, Art Gallery, Swansea, April 1914, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Merthyr Tydfil, 1915, Tate Gallery, London, 1916–21, Newport, 1922, Whitworth Institute Art Galleries, Manchester, 1923–4, Tate Gallery, London, 1925, Wolverhampton, 1926, Tate Gallery, London, 1927–30, transferred to the British Museum, London, 1931 (no overall catalogue but with individual publications under Literature).
1990
Painting and Poetry: Turner’s ‘Verse Book’ and his Work of 1804–1812, Tate Gallery, London, June–September 1990 (38).
References
1896
William White, Notes on a Biographical Series of Fifty Drawings and Sketches by J.M.W. Turner, R.A., Belonging to the National Gallery Collection, London 1896, p.24 no.28 as ‘Studies of River Foregrounds, with Eel-Pots’.
1906
A Catalogue of an Exhibition of Studies & Drawings ... by Frederic Shields ...Drawings and Sketches by J.M.W. Turner, exhibition catalogue, Municipal School of Art, Manchester 1906, unpaginated, no.25 as ‘On the River’.
1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.279, CV 92, as ‘Three sketches on the Thames; one at Walton’.
1912
Catalogue of Original Drawings in Water Colour, Etc., by J.M.W. Turner, R.A., Lent by the Trustees of the National Gallery, exhibition catalogue, Laing Art Gallery and Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne 1912, unpaginated, no.21 as ‘On the River’.
1990
Andrew Wilton and Rosalind Mallord Turner, Painting and Poetry: Turner’s ‘Verse Book’ and his Work of 1804–1812, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1990, p.131 reproduced.
This leaf is listed twice by Finberg, both as ‘page 92’ of the Windsor, Eton sketchbook (Tate; Turner Bequest XCVII) and as one of a batch of ‘loose leaves appear[ing] to belong to this [the present] book’. Finberg is unlikely to have seen it owing to its absence in the Fourth Loan Collection and presumably referred to the handlists or catalogues for the tour. He also seems to have been confused as to whether the recto or the verso (D07131; Turner Bequest CV 92a) was the side exhibited, but the titles confirm that it was the recto. The leaf was afterwards bound in as folio 60. The paper is discoloured from exposure.
There are three separate subjects, two with eel-pots.
David Blayney Brown
June 2010
How to cite
David Blayney Brown, ‘Three Scenes on the River Thames, Two with Eel-Pots 1808–10 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www