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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Marine subjects c.1803-14 > Shipwreck (1) Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Stern of a Man-of-War: Arithmetic (Inscriptions by Turner) c.1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Stern of a Man-of-War: Arithmetic (Inscriptions by Turner)’ c.1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Verso:
Stern of a Man-of-War: Arithmetic (Inscriptions by Turner) circa 1805
D05425
Turner Bequest LXXXVII 50
Pen and ink on cream laid paper, 185 x 118 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil with stationer’s address (see main catalogue entry) at left of image, descending vertically, and with accounts, top
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘50’ bottom right, running vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXXXVII 50’ bottom right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See note to folio 10 of this sketchbook (D05404; Turner Bequest LXXXVII 29). Turner’s inscription reads ‘Stationer | Mr. Dickenson Grays Inn’ and his accounts are as follows:
70     350 Proofs. 
        77          500 
                 ______ 
                  10.10 
These must refer to Charles Turner’s mezzotint after Turner’s picture The Shipwreck (Tate N00476).1 See Introduction to the sketchbook for the picture and print.

David Blayney Brown
January 2006

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.43 no.54 (pl. 64).

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Stern of a Man-of-War: Arithmetic (Inscriptions by Turner) c.1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2006, 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-stern-of-a-man-of-war-arithmetic-inscriptions-by-turner-r1139205, accessed 20 September 2024.