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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > River and Margate Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Barge and Fishing Boats, with Chalk Cliffs and Town in Distance: ?Margate c.1805-9

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Barge and Fishing Boats, with Chalk Cliffs and Town in Distance: ?Margate’ c.1805-9
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 70 Recto:
Barge and Fishing Boats, with Chalk Cliffs and Town in Distance: ?Margate circa 1805–9
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Turner Bequest XCIX 66
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 115 x 190 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘66’
Stamped in black ‘XCIX 66’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Barge and Fishing Boats, with Chalk Cliffs and Town in Distance: ?Margate c.1805–9 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2009, 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-barge-and-fishing-boats-with-chalk-cliffs-and-town-in-r1130669, accessed 16 July 2025.