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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Shipping in the Pool of London off the Custom House; and Two Further Views c.1825

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Shipping in the Pool of London off the Custom House; and Two Further Views’ c.1825
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 69 Verso:
Shipping in the Pool of London off the Custom House; and Two Further Views circa 1825
D07073
Turner Bequest CV 61a
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
On the left of the leaf there is an extension, drawn with the sketchbook inverted, of the view of the Thames off the Custom House on folio 70 (D07074; Turner Bequest CV 62). To the right, made with the book turned upright, are two slight sketches of shipping, the lower one including St Paul’s Cathedral. 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, ‘Shipping in the Pool of London off the Custom House; and Two Further Views 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-off-the-custom-house-and-two-r1134605, accessed 18 April 2024.