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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Rhine, Strassburg and Oxford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Arithmetic (Inscriptions by Turner) 1802-3

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Arithmetic (Inscriptions by Turner)’ 1802-3 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
Arithmetic (Inscriptions by Turner) 1802–3
D40794
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inscribed by Turner in pencil, top left, and ink, right centre, descending vertically (see main catalogue entry)
Turner’s inscriptions read as follows: in pencil
Coach   12 
...     1 
Ex .... 4 ?Newbury 
        4 6 
and in ink ‘8 by 6’
The travelling expenses must relate to the trip to Oxford that occasioned various drawings in this sketchbook (see Introduction) as well as similar accounts inside its front cover (D40792).

David Blayney Brown
March 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Arithmetic (Inscriptions by Turner) 1802–3 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2004, 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-arithmetic-inscriptions-by-turner-r1133501, accessed 25 April 2024.