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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscriptions by Turner: A List of Possessions; A List of Subjects on the River Rhine c.1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscriptions by Turner: A List of Possessions; A List of Subjects on the River Rhine’ c.1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Recto:
Inscriptions by Turner: A List of Possessions; A List of Subjects on the River Rhine c.1819
D13804
Turner Bequest CLXIX 35
Pencil on white wove paper, 119 x 87 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘35’ top right, ascending vertically (faint and smudged)
Stamped in black ‘CLXIX – 35’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically, the more substantial pencil inscription runs down from the top left:
Bas[...]
Oberwesel
Launeck
[?Jonnesberg]
Remagen
Maintz
Brother
Bachrac
Mouse Tower
Katz.
[?Gaurhasen]
Backerach
Cecilia Powell notes this as a list of projected subjects for a series of views along the Rhine which were to have been engraved from watercolours commissioned by W.B. Cooke,1 although the project was abandoned at an early stage owing to the appearance elsewhere of a similar publication, as discussed under folio 7 recto (D13763).
Descending along the right-hand edge relative to this list (inverted along the bottom edge in terms of the foliation) is a shorter note in pencil:
Sketch Books Colors B[...] P[...]
Portable [...] Wallet
Finberg suggests ‘Soup’ as the penultimate word. In itself the reading seems feasible, but it appears unlikely in the context.
1
Powell 1991, p.60 note 65; Powell 1995, p.77 note 57.
Verso:
Blank

Matthew Imms
September 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Inscriptions by Turner: A List of Possessions; A List of Subjects on the River Rhine 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-inscriptions-by-turner-a-list-of-possessions-a-list-of-r1147527, accessed 18 April 2024.