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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Liber Studiorum notes c.1807-19 > Aesacus and Hesperie Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: A Resolution Regarding the Royal Academy Exhibition c.1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: A Resolution Regarding the Royal Academy Exhibition’ c.1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Verso:
Inscription by Turner: A Resolution Regarding the Royal Academy Exhibition c.1819
D13787
Turner Bequest CLXIX 24a
Pen and ink on white wove paper, 87 x 119 mm
Inscribed by Turner in ink (see main catalogue entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the upper two thirds of the page are taken up with the following notes concerning the Royal Academy’s annual exhibition:
Many inconveniences having occurred from | the removal of Pictures arranged by the Comittee | for Ex
Resolved. That to prevent such Inconveniences | recurring in future no application for | changes [‘the situation of’ inserted above] Pictures after the Com have | finished the arrangement & the [?Mem] are | allowed to come in and varn. their Paintings, | can be attended to. – April 25 [?1809]
Although the third figure of the concluding year date appears to be ‘0’, the note should presumably be dated 1819 in line with others on Royal Academy business in this sketchbook (see under folio 4 recto; D13757). A contemporary note of an 1809 resolution would clearly be impossible given the 1817 watermark on some leaves (see the Introduction to the sketchbook).

Matthew Imms
September 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Inscription by Turner: A Resolution Regarding the Royal Academy Exhibition c.1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2013, 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-a-resolution-regarding-the-royal-r1147510, accessed 26 April 2024.