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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Banks of the ?River Tiber 1828-9

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Banks of the ?River Tiber’ 1828-9
Folio 7 Verso:
The Banks of the ?River Tiber 1828–9
D14844
Turner Bequest CLXXVIII 7a
Pencil on white laid paper, 97 x 132 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This loosely defined sketch of riverside buildings and boats is difficult to locate; Finberg’s 1909 Inventory of the Bequest proposed the banks of the River Tiber.1 Turner was possibly sketching on his departure from Rome in early January 1829, as he headed north-east towards the Apennine Mountains. The obscure markings in the foreground appear to be shells or rocks.

Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

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Finberg 1909, I, p.524.

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘The Banks of the ?River Tiber 1828–9’, catalogue entry, November 2024, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2025, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/the-banks-of-the-river-tiber-r1210218, accessed 15 April 2025.