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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Pencil Tests c.1795

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Pencil Tests’ c.1795
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Pencil Tests c.1795
D40057
Pencil on white wove paper, 213 x 281 mm
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom left
Stamped in black ‘[crown] | BM XXVIII – D’ bottom centre
Inscribed in pencil ‘XXVIII D’ top left, upside down
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There are pencil flourishes, and pothooks, together with some watercolour stains; the sheet is very dirty. For the dark varnish stain at the top centre see the entry for the recto (D00689; Turner Bequest XXVIII D), a watercolour view of Llanstephan Castle. The verso is not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue.1

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.56.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Pencil Tests c.1795 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-pencil-tests-r1141187, accessed 18 April 2024.