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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Blank 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Recto:
Blank
D16144
Turner Bequest CLXXXVII 56
Traces of grey watercolour wash on white wove paper, 255 x 403 mm
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘56’ bottom right, descending right-hand edge
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXVII 56’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Technical notes:
The Naples, Rome C. Studies sketchbook was partially rebound in 1935. This leaf was perhaps originally folio 54 (see the concordance in the introduction).
Verso:
Blank except for grey watercolour wash; stamped in black ‘CLXXXVII 56’ and Turner Bequest stamp bottom left.

Nicola Moorby
March 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Blank by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2010, 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-blank-r1132406, accessed 26 April 2024.