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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Continuation of a Sketch of Queensferry; and Inscriptions by Turner 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Continuation of a Sketch of Queensferry; and Inscriptions by Turner’ 1831 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover:
Continuation of a Sketch of Queensferry; and Inscriptions by Turner 1831
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Pencil on white wove paper, 201 x 125 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘6 4 | 14’ centre inverted, ‘D | B | all’ lower centre inverted, ‘3 6’ lower right inverted, 5 | 6’ bottom inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLXX’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continued from folio 1 at the top right of the page is a sketch of Queensferry on the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh. Scattered across the rest of the page are numbers and letters inscribed by Turner. It is not clear what these refer to.

Thomas Ardill
June 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Continuation of a Sketch of Queensferry; and Inscriptions by Turner 1831 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-continuation-of-a-sketch-of-queensferry-and-inscriptions-by-r1134869, accessed 25 April 2024.