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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Cheshire, Derbyshire, North Wales ... > Tabley No.3 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Unidentified Subject 1808-10

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Unidentified Subject’ 1808-10
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Verso:
Unidentified Subject
D40638
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘8...1’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See note to the recto (D07119; Turner Bequest CV 86) for Finberg’s listing of this leaf as one of a batch of ‘loose leaves appear[ing] to belong to this book’ and its subsequent repositioning. Finberg did not notice these slight pencil marks.

David Blayney Brown
June 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Unidentified Subject by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-unidentified-subject-r1134585, accessed 26 April 2024.