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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Margate and Life Drawing c.1830-40 > Gravesend and Margate Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Waterside Buildings and Shipping, ?Kent; Recipe 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Waterside Buildings and Shipping, ?Kent; Recipe’ 1832 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
Waterside Buildings and Shipping, ?Kent; Recipe 1832
D41145
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 206 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil with a recipe (see main entry) top centre
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner noted down a medicine recipe at the top of this page. It reads:
6 – [...] of W V[...]l du Camf[...]d
26 of [...]j[...] W.
6 of Ru [...]
6 of ?Columbo
5 of Soda
12 P[?owder] 2 a day
With the sketchbook turned horizontally Turner filled this page with a study of waterside buildings and shipping, perhaps located in Kent like many other views in this volume. For more information on these, see the sketchbook introduction.
Technical notes:
The page has patches of brown discolouration where the glue attaching the pencil holders to the back cover has seeped through the paper.

John Chu
March 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Waterside Buildings and Shipping, ?Kent; Recipe 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-waterside-buildings-and-shipping-kent-recipe-r1181502, accessed 26 April 2024.