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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Margate, London and Surrey c.1829-45 > Colnaghi's Account Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Blank c.1829-30

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Blank’ c.1829-30
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Recto:
Blank
D22557
Turner Bequest CCXLII 1
Inscribed by later hands in pencil (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘1’ bottom right (now very faint)
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCXLII’ centre left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXLII – 1’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page is blank apart from the inscription by Turner’s executors, with the book’s original schedule number endorsed by Charles Lock Eastlake and John Prescott Knight, inverted at the bottom of the page relative to the foliation: ‘408 Book containing 5 leaves | with pencil sketches’, initialled ‘C.L.E’ and ‘JPK’. Usually the number and description were inscribed by Henry Scott Trimmer in ink, but here they appear to be in Eastlake’s hand.
A double-sided folding French calendar for 1829 (D41058, D41059) is tipped onto this page near the gutter.

Matthew Imms
May 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Blank by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2014, 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-blank-r1148333, accessed 23 April 2024.