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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Hastings Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Margate c.1816-18

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Margate’ c.1816-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Recto:
Margate circa 1816–18
D10361
Turner Bequest CXXXIX 17
Pencil on white wove paper, 129 x 205 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘W Y H’ above a building right of centre
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘17’ bottom left, inverted and ‘315’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIX 17’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted and continued on folio 16 verso (D10360), for which see catalogue note. Here, the initials ‘W Y H’ are written above the Georgian façade of the York Hotel, then run by a Mr Wright.1
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The Editor of The Picture of London [John Feltham], A Guide to all the Watering and Sea-Bathing Places, with a Description of the Lakes, a Sketch of a Tour in Wales, and Various Itineraries, Illustrated with Maps and Views, London 1815, p.383. Matthew Imms has kindly provided this reference. Turner used an earlier edition of this guidebook, most probably that of 1810.
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David Blayney Brown
May 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Margate c.1816–18 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-margate-r1131589, accessed 24 November 2024.