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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Façade of the Custom House and Spire of St Magnus the Martyr c.1825

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Façade of the Custom House and Spire of St Magnus the Martyr’ c.1825
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 74 Verso:
The Façade of the Custom House and Spire of St Magnus the Martyr circa 1825
D07081
Turner Bequest CV 65a
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Kings Warehouse’ top left, ‘Not R.’ (twice) and ?‘Rus’ within image
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted, on the right half of the leaf, this detail of the façade of the Custom House extends the drawing on folio 75 verso (D07083; Turner Bequest CV 66 a) if that leaf is folded to meet it. 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, ‘The Façade of the Custom House and Spire of St Magnus the Martyr 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-the-facade-of-the-custom-house-and-spire-of-st-magnus-the-r1134615, accessed 24 April 2024.