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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Sheerness, Kent c.1832

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Verso:
?Sheerness, Kent c.1832
D27364
Turner Bequest CCLXXIX 52
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 206 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘52’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIX 52’ top left, inverted
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated, the buildings sketched at the top of this page may be located in Kent like many other views in this volume. A.J. Finberg suggested at location at Sheerness.1 For more information on these, see the sketchbook introduction.
1
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.887.
Technical notes:
The page has patches of brown discolouration where the glue attaching the pencil holders to the back cover has seeped through the later leaves.

John Chu
March 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Sheerness, Kent c.1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sheerness-kent-r1181500, accessed 29 March 2024.