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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: Number of Sketchbook 1815-16

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Label on Spine:
Inscription by Turner: Number of Sketchbook 1815–16
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Pen and ink on wove paper, 26 x 52 mm, laid on leather spine of sketchbook
Inscribed by Turner in pen and ink ‘120’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In the absence of specific evidence, this inscription is dated here in line with the rest of the sketchbook, although David Hill has suggested that Turner probably added such labels during a general review of his sketchbooks in about 1821 or 1822.1

Matthew Imms
September 2013

1
See David Hill, ‘The Landscape of Imagination and the Sense of Place: Turner’s Sketching Practice’ in Maurice Guillaud, Nicholas Alfrey, Andrew Wilton and others, Turner en France, exhibition catalogue, Centre Culturel du Marais, Paris 1981, pp.143, 147 note 34.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Inscription by Turner: Number of Sketchbook 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-inscription-by-turner-number-of-sketchbook-r1147756, accessed 14 May 2024.