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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Oxford c.1787-91 > Oxford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Blank c.1789

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Blank’ c.1789 (Blank right-hand page of sketchbook)
Blank right-hand page of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
Blank
D00041
Turner Bequest II 23
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘23’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘II 23’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram; a slight grey colour trial at the lower left may be for the drawing on the opposite page (folio 24 recto; D00042); there is also a perhaps accidental scribbled pencil oval, at lower right centre. These marks are not mentioned by Finberg

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Blank by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-blank-r1140196, accessed 25 April 2024.