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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Studies in the Louvre Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Colour Key (Inscriptions by Turner) 1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Colour Key (Inscriptions by Turner)’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 65 Recto:
Colour Key (Inscriptions by Turner) 1802
D04359
Turner Bequest LXXII 65
Inscribed by Turner in pencil (see main catalogue entry) on white wove paper prepared with a grey wash, 128 x 114 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘65’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXII–65’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg did not attempt a transcription of these notes, which must form a colour key of an unidentified picture of upright format. The notation is too complex to be set out here, although both initials and words, including ‘Blue Grey’, ‘Dark’ and ‘Ochre’, are legible. Further study of the original is required.
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David Blayney Brown
July 2005

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Colour Key (Inscriptions by Turner) 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2005, 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-colour-key-inscriptions-by-turner-r1129768, accessed 25 April 2024.