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Joseph Mallord William Turner (artist)
British, 1775 - 1851
The Junction of the Thames and the Medway, 1807
oil on canvas
Overall: 108.8 x 143.7 cm (42 13/16 x 56 9/16 in.) framed: 148 x 180.3 cm (58 1/4 x 71 in.)
Widener Collection
1942.9.87
From the Tour: Constable and Turner — British Landscapes of the Early 1800s
Object 3 of 11
1807Morning Post, 6 May 1807.
1826Carey, William Paulet. Patronage and Progress of the Fine Arts. London, 1826: 115.
1915Widener 1915, unpaginated, repro.
1923Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1923 (unpaginated) unpaginated, repro.
1931Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1931: 190, repro.
1948Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 96, repro.
1952Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Great Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1952: 144, color repro.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 322, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 133
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:368, color repro.
1968Cooke, Hereward Lester. Painting Lessons from the Great Masters. London, 1968: 44, fig. 29.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 120, repro.
1975Brown, David. "Turner, Callcott and Thomas Lister Parker: New Light on Turners' `Junction of the Thames and the Medway' in Washington." The Burlington Magazine 117 (1975): 719-722.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 354, repro.
1975Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: no. 599, color repro.
1984Butlin, Martin and Evelyn Joll. The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner. 2 vols. New Haven and London, 1977. (2d rev. ed., 1984): 1:no. 62; 2:pl. 73.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 413, no. 584, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 406, repro.
1986Chapel, Jeannie. "The Turner Collector: Joseph Gillott, 1799-1872." Turner Studies 6 (1986): 44-45.
1992Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 264-268, repro. 265.

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