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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Sandycombe Lodge c.1808-12 > Sandycombe and Yorkshire Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Pencil Stroke c.1809-11

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Pencil Stroke’ c.1809-11
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Pencil Stroke circa 1809–11
D08987
Turner Bequest CXXVII 17
Pencil on white wove paper, 126 x 201 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘17’ bottom right (now very faint)
Stamped in black ‘CXXVII 17’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There is a single, tentative pencil mark just below the centre towards the gutter on the left. It is roughly horizontal, and may mark the beginning of an abandoned pencil sketch. Finberg ignored it in the Inventory.
Technical notes:
This page is a face of one of the loose bifolio sheets which form the majority of the so-called Sandycombe and Yorkshire sketchbook, along with a few single leaves. The sheets were not bound, but folded inside each other in a sequence which is not entirely recoverable (see the sketchbook’s Introduction for a suggested order). When unfolded, this page is continuous with D08984 (CXXVII 14a).
Verso:
Blank, save for a cluster of small, dark marks, possibly offsetting, towards the bottom right.

Matthew Imms
January 2012

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Pencil Stroke c.1809–11 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2012, 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-a-pencil-stroke-r1134698, accessed 23 April 2024.