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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Boats and Wharves: Dimensions and Arithmetic (Inscriptions by Turner) c.1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Boats and Wharves: Dimensions and Arithmetic (Inscriptions by Turner)’ c.1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Verso:
Boats and Wharves: Dimensions and Arithmetic (Inscriptions by Turner) circa 1808
D06821
Turner Bequest CII 50a
Pencil on white wove paper, 76 x 115 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil with various numbers and accounts
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See Introduction to the sketchbook and note to folio 48 (D06814) for the discrepancy between the current folio number and Finberg’s.
Drawn and inscribed with the sketchbook inverted. Turner’s notes are as follows.
At left:
      3| 65 
          8 
      3|520 
        334 
At centre:  
      5|520 
         98 
          8 
        448 
         49 
        497 
At right:  
      497 by 530 
      5 ft 6 ... 27 

David Blayney Brown
March 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Boats and Wharves: Dimensions and Arithmetic (Inscriptions by Turner) c.1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2007, 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-boats-and-wharves-dimensions-and-arithmetic-inscriptions-by-r1130914, accessed 24 April 2024.