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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Fishermen and Shipping near a Jetty, ?Margate, Kent c.1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fishermen and Shipping near a Jetty, ?Margate, Kent’ c.1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Verso:
Fishermen and Shipping near a Jetty, ?Margate, Kent c.1834
D27838
Turner Bequest CCLXXXII 39a
Chalk on brownish grey wove paper, 139 x 228 mm
Inscribed by Turner in black chalk ‘G H[...]’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated, this maritime view in chalks is one of several in this volume. For more information, see the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
March 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Fishermen and Shipping near a Jetty, ?Margate, Kent c.1834 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-fishermen-and-shipping-near-a-jetty-margate-kent-r1181698, accessed 20 April 2024.