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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Margate Custom House, Kent c.1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Margate Custom House, Kent’ c.1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 verso:
Margate Custom House, Kent c.1832
D27322
Turner Bequest CCLXXIX 30a
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 206 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a view of Margate incorporating the custom house. For more on the Kentish studies in this volume, see the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
March 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Margate Custom House, 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-margate-custom-house-kent-r1181458, accessed 25 April 2024.