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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sail Boats; Margate, Kent c.1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sail Boats; Margate, Kent’ c.1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Recto:
Sail Boats; Margate, Kent c.1832
D27291
Turner Bequest CCLXXIX 7
Pencil on white wove paper, 206 x 86 mm
Inscribed by Turner with illegible notes, bottom right, inverted
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘7’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIX 7’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner worked a sketch of sail boats into the top of this page and below, a view of a harbour identified by Eric Shanes as Margate.1 For more information on the Kentish scenes in this volume, see the sketchbook introduction.
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Eric Shanes, Turner’s Picturesque Views in England and Wales 1825–1838, London 1979, p.156 under no.47.
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John Chu
March 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Sail Boats; Margate, 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-sail-boats-margate-kent-r1181427, accessed 14 May 2024.