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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Pencil Mark c.1815-16

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Recto:
A Pencil Mark c.1815–16
D10842
Turner Bequest CXLIII 64
Pencil on white wove paper, 160 x 102 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘64’ bottom right (now smudged and faint)
Stamped in black ‘CXLIII – 64’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As Finberg notes, the page is effectively blank, apart from a stray pencil mark towards the bottom right.

Matthew Imms
September 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Pencil Mark c.1815–16 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-a-pencil-mark-r1147729, accessed 29 March 2024.