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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Farnley Hall and Yorkshire c.1808-24 > Scarborough 1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: Number of Sketchbook c.1816-18

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: Number of Sketchbook’ c.1816-18 (Back cover of sketchbook)
Back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Label on Spine:
Inscription by Turner: Number of Sketchbook c.1816–18
D40707
Ink on white wove paper, 28 x 65 mm, pasted around spine
Inscribed by Turner in ink ‘101’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The paper spine label was evidently cut from a printed source, and some letters appear at its edge on the back cover (D40706): ‘[...]nd | [...]s;’.

David Hill
September 2008

Revised by Matthew Imms
May 2014

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Inscription by Turner: Number of Sketchbook c.1816–18 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2008, revised by Matthew Imms, May 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-inscription-by-turner-number-of-sketchbook-r1146932, accessed 24 April 2024.