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 c.1825

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Shipping in the Pool of London near the Custom House’ c.1825
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Recto:
Shipping in the Pool of London near the Custom House circa 1825
D07125
Turner Bequest CV 89a
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by and unknown hand in pencil ‘122’ bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘839’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Noting the current verso (D07124; Turner Bequest CV 89) as one of a batch of ‘loose leaves appear[ing] to belong to this book’, Finberg observed: ‘There appears to be another drawing on back, but it is stuck down tight on a piece of cartridge’. The leaf was subsequently rebound as folio 61 with the hidden side treated as the recto; the drawing appears inverted. The paper is discoloured by adhesive. The Custom House, drawn from the water, appears on the right, indicated largely by shading. See Introduction to the sketchbook for plans in the mid 1820s for a series of London subjects, including the Custom House. As in many drawings in the book, the composition is similar to The Custom House (Vancouver Art Gallery),1 engraved by J.C. Allen, 1827.

David Blayney Brown
June 2010

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, pp.358–9 no.516.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Shipping in the Pool of London near 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-near-the-custom-house-r1134588, accessed 25 April 2024.