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 41 Recto:
Margate Custom House, Kent c.1832
D27343
Turner Bequest CCLXXIX 41
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 206 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘D[...]’ top left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘41’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIX 41’ top right, ascending vertically
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a studies of Margate harbour with the custom house to the left-hand side of the scene.1 For more information on the maritime subjects in this volume, see the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
March 2015

1
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.886

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-r1181479, accessed 19 April 2024.