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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: ?Poetry c.1834-6

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
Inscription by Turner: ?Poetry c.1834–6
D41221
Pencil on white wove paper, 79 x 101 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil (see main catalogue entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See under folio 42 verso for a discussion and transcription of the largely illegible draft of what seems to be poetry; each of the ten lines is continued across the present page for anything up to three or four words.
Technical notes:
The paper is stained around the edges from contact with the leather overlaps from the back cover over which it is pasted.

Matthew Imms
May 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Inscription by Turner: ?Poetry c.1834–6 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-inscription-by-turner-poetry-r1149019, accessed 19 March 2024.