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 Copy of a Sale-Notice (Inscription by Turner) 1810

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Copy of a Sale-Notice (Inscription by Turner)’ 1810
Folio 62 Verso:
Copy of a Sale-Notice (Inscription by Turner) 1810
D07691
Turner Bequest CXI 62a
Pencil on white wove paper, 88 x 110 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil (see main catalogue entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s inscription, written with the sketchbook inverted, reads:
Herald. Thursday, Aug 9
We are authorised to state that the | lease and possession of the desirable | premises in Norton Street, Ma[ry]lebone | and communicating through the garden to P.H. (?) | (omitted by accident in the advertisements | which announced the sale of the wines | library (furniture only) will be sold by | auction in the second days sale | of to-morrow
This copy of a newspaper advertisement runs on from a heading written on folio 63 (D07692); ‘Hodgetts sale belonging to ... 90 Norton St’. In Hamilton’s opinion Turner’s inscription is ‘scrappily’ written, ‘suggesting composition rather than transcription’; hence he concludes that Turner ‘appears to have sold the lease of a property in Norton Street for auction in 1809 or 1810’. 9 August fell on a Thursday in 1810.

David Blayney Brown
May 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Copy of a Sale-Notice (Inscription by Turner) 1810’, 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/copy-of-a-sale-notice-inscription-by-turner-r1131178, accessed 10 May 2024.