'Inscription by Turner: Title of Sketchbook', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Inscription by Turner: Title of Sketchbook

From Thames, from Reading to Walton Sketchbook

Turner Bequest XCV

Date c.1805

MediumPen and ink and graphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 257 x 364 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D40344

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Inscription by Turner: Title of Sketchbook circa 1805

D40344

Ink on marbled laid paper sketchbook cover, 257 x 364 mm
Inscribed by Turner in ink ‘Thames from | Reading to | Walton’ top left, ascending vertically

References

Verso:

Blank endpaper; inscribed by the Executors of the Turner Bequest (for a transcription see the introduction to the sketchbook); inscribed in pencil ‘XCV’; stamped in black ‘XCV’.

Matthew Imms
November 2012

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.

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