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 Figures and Shipping c.1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Figures and Shipping’ c.1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Recto:
Figures and Shipping c.1832
D27292
Turner Bequest CCLXXIX 8
Pencil on white wove paper, 206 x 86 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘8’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIX 8’, top left, inverted
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The studies of figures at the top of this page are inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated. For more information on the sketches of figures in this volume, see the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
March 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Figures and Shipping c.1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2014, 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-figures-and-shipping-r1181428, accessed 22 November 2024.