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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Quayside 1835

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Quayside’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 57 Verso:
?Quayside 1835
D32538
Turner Bequest CCCXXI 57
Pencil on off-white laid paper, 153 x 95 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner <B... L...> (inverted) top left
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘57’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXXI–57’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight sketch is part of a larger view of a quay or harbour, which continues onto the folio opposite (Tate D32539; Turner Bequest CCCXXI 58). An illegible inscription has been crossed out below the sketch.
Recto:
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘57’ and stamped in black ‘CCCXXI–57’, bottom right.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2016

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?Quayside 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-quayside-r1187349, accessed 26 April 2024.