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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Shipping in the Pool of London off the Custom House c.1825

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 70 Recto:
Shipping in the Pool of London off the Custom House circa 1825
D07074
Turner Bequest CV 62
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Corn’ below a lighter at right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘62’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CV 62’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted, this subject extends on to folio 69 verso (D07073; Turner Bequest CV 61a). The Custom House is at right followed by the Monument, the tower of St Magnus the Martyr and St Paul’s Cathedral. See Introduction to the sketchbook for plans in the mid 1820s for a series of London subjects, including the Custom House and the Tower.

David Blayney Brown
June 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Shipping in the Pool of London off the Custom House c.1825 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.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-shipping-in-the-pool-of-london-off-the-custom-house-r1134606, accessed 29 March 2024.