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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: A Note on Sussex Subjects in Progress c.1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: A Note on Sussex Subjects in Progress’ c.1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Recto:
Inscription by Turner: A Note on Sussex Subjects in Progress c.1819
D13797
Turner Bequest CLXIX 30
Pencil on white wove paper, 87 x 119 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Harold – [?size] – 1 | 3 Fullers’ top left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘30’ bottom right (faint and smudged)
Stamped in black ‘CLXIX – 30’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s ‘Harold’ presumably indicates his untraced watercolour design of about 1816, Battle Abbey, the Spot where Harold Fell,1 engraved in 1819 for W.B. Cooke’s series of Turner’s Views in Sussex (Tate impressions: T04428–T04430, T06002). ‘Fullers’ is a reference to John ‘Jack’ Fuller (1757–1834), who commissioned the Battle Abbey watercolour and others included in Cooke’s scheme.2
See also David Blayney Brown’s Introduction to the ‘Sketchbooks used in East Sussex’ (c.1806–20) section of the present catalogue. There is a related note on folio 36 recto (D13805) and studies for the Views in Sussex frontispiece vignette on folios 1 recto, 39 verso and 40 verso (D13751, D13811, D13813).
1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.348 no.423.
2
Ibid., pp.348–9 nos.424–429, 431–435, 438, mostly reproduced.
Verso:
Blank

Matthew Imms
September 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Inscription by Turner: A Note on Sussex Subjects in Progress 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-note-on-sussex-subjects-in-progress-r1147520, accessed 19 April 2024.