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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Figures and Boats off Billingsgate in the Pool of London ?1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Figures and Boats off Billingsgate in the Pool of London’ ?1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 37 Verso:
Figures and Boats off Billingsgate in the Pool of London ?1824
D17899
Turner Bequest CCV 37a
Pencil on white wove paper, 98 x 162 mm
Watermark ‘1821’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a slighter version of the busy quayside scene at the old Billingsgate fish market near Old London Bridge on folio 36 verso (D17897), showing figures in and around lightly indicated boats; one wears a sou’wester hat. More than half the drawings in this sketchbook show the River Thames around the bridge, and are likely to date from 1824; see the Introduction.

Matthew Imms
December 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Figures and Boats off Billingsgate in the Pool of London ?1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-figures-and-boats-off-billingsgate-in-the-pool-of-london-r1172613, accessed 26 April 2024.