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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Shipping in the Pool of London near the Custom House; Figures in Small Boats c.1825

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Shipping in the Pool of London near the Custom House; Figures in Small Boats’ c.1825
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Recto:
Shipping in the Pool of London near the Custom House; Figures in Small Boats circa 1825
D07038
Turner Bequest CV 40
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil (illegible) middle right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘40’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CV 40’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Most of the leaf is given to separate sketches of small boats and river incident, but at lower left there is a slight continuation of the view of the Custom House on folio 43 verso (D07037; Turner Bequest 39a). See Introduction to the sketchbook for plans in the mid 1820s for a series of London subjects, including the Custom House

David Blayney Brown
June 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Shipping in the Pool of London near the Custom House; Figures in Small Boats 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-near-the-custom-house-figures-r1134562, accessed 25 April 2024.