Provenance

Purchased 1807, almost certainly from Turner's gallery, by Thomas Lister Parker [1779-1858], Brownsholme Hall, Yorkshire; (sale, 1808, bought in).[1] (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 9 March 1811, no. 29, bought in). John Newington Hughes [-1848], Winchester, after 1826; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 14-15 April 1848, 2nd day, no. 147); (Thomas Rought); sold 3 May 1848 to Joseph Gillott, Birmingham; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 19-20, 26-27 April 1872, 4th day, no. 306); (Thos. Agnew & Sons, London); sold 1872 to Richard Hemming [died c. 1892], Bentley Manor, Bromsgrove, and London; by inheritance to his wife; sold 1892 to (Thos. Agnew & Sons, London); sold 1893 to (Wallis & Son, London); purchased 10 March 1894 through John G. Johnson by Peter A.B. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park; gift 1942 to NGA.

[1] David Brown, "Turner, Callcott and Thomas Lister Parker: New Light on Turners' `Junction of the Thames and the Medway' in Washington," Burlington Magazine, 117 (1975), 721.

Associated Names

• Parker, Thomas Lister
• Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
• Hughes, John Newington
• Rought, Thomas
• Gillott, Joseph
• Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
• Hemming, Richard
• Hemming, Richard, Mrs.
• Wallis & Son, Henry
• Widener, Peter Arrell Brown
• Widener, Joseph E.

Exhibition History

1807

• Turner's gallery, 1807.

1852

• Modern Works of Art, Birmingham Society of Artists, 1852, no. 37.

1857

• Art Treasures of the United Kingdom: Paintings by Modern Masters, Art Treasures Palace, Manchester, 1857, no. 288.

1868

• National Exhibition of Works of Art, Infirmory, Leeds, 1868, no. 1107.

1894

• Forty-First Annual Exhibition of Selected High-Class Pictures, by British and Foreign Artists, French Galleries, (Wallis & Son), London, 1894, no. 26.

Bibliography

1807

• Morning Post, 6 May 1807.

1826

• Carey, William Paulet. Patronage and Progress of the Fine Arts. London, 1826: 115.

1915

• Roberts, William. Pictures in the Collection of P.A.B. Widener at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: British and Modern French Schools, Philadelphia, 1915: unpaginated, repro.

1923

• Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1923: unpaginated, repro.

1931

• Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1931: 190, repro.

1948

• Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 96, repro.

1952

• Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., Great Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1952: 144, color repro.

1963

• Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 322, repro.

1965

• Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 133.

1966

• Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:368, color repro.

1968

• Gandolfo, Giampaolo et al. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Great Museums of the World. New York, 1968: 150-151, color repro.

• National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 120, repro.

• Cooke, Hereward Lester. Painting Lessons from the Great Masters. London, 1968: 44, fig. 29.

1975

• Brown, 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.

• European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 354, repro.

• Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: no. 599, color repro.

1984

• Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 413, no. 584, color repro.

• Butlin, 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.

1985

• European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 406, repro.

1986

• Chapel, Jeannie. "The Turner Collector: Joseph Gillott, 1799-1872." Turner Studies 6 (1986): 44-45.

1991

• Kopper, Philip. America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation. New York, 1991: 199, color repro.

1992

• Hayes, 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.

2007

• Warrell, Ian, ed. J.M.W. Turner. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Dallas Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. London and Washington, D.C., 2007: 242.

2011

• Pergam, Elizabeth A. The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857: Entrepreneurs, Connoisseurs and the Public. Farnham and Burlington, 2011: 313.

Inscriptions

on reverse of lining canvas in black ink: The Junction of the / THAMES and MEDWAY, from the / NOREBUOY, with a distant view / of SHEERNESS and the Isle of SHEPPY. / Painted by J.W.M. [sic] TURNER Esq r RA / In o [sic] Newington Hughes Esq.r.; below: No54

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