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Joseph Mallord William Turner A List of Food and Drink 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A List of Food and Drink’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Recto:
A List of Food and Drink 1839
D28637
Turner Bequest CCXCI 52
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 156 x 100 mm
Watermarked ‘v d m[eulen]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner with a note on food and drink consumed (see main entry)
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘52’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCI–52’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has inscribed a note about the food and drink he consumed on a particular days. It reads: ‘Bread and Cheese. Bottle of Ale | Dinner 2 Small bottles of Stout | Glass of Gin and Water’. Cecilia Powell believes that this note, and that on folio 66 verso (Tate D28652; Turner Bequest CCXCI 66 a), were actually written in England and not whilst Turner was on tour in the Meuse-Moselle region.1
1
Powell 1991, Appendix p.225.
Verso:
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Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘A List of Food and Drink 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-list-of-food-and-drink-r1150921, accessed 26 April 2024.