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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Albano, Nemi, Rome Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner’ 1819 (Front cover of sketchbook)
Front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Front Cover:
Inscription by Turner 1819
D40616
Turner Bequest
Cardboard and leather, 118 x 191 mm
Inscribed by the artist in brown ink ‘Albano Nemi Roma’ along top and ‘Nov 30 1819’ centre
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘CLXXXII’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXII’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For comments on the inscribed dates in this sketchbook see the main introduction to the sketchbook.

Nicola Moorby
May 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Inscription by Turner 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2008, 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-inscription-by-turner-r1132590, accessed 25 April 2024.