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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Pencil Stroke ?1825

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Recto:
A Pencil Stroke ?1825
D18779
Turner Bequest CCXIII 48
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 187 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘48’ bottom right (now very faint)
Stamped in black ‘CCXIII – 48’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The pencil mark at the top right is probably an accidental stroke rather than the beginning of a sketch, and was not recorded by Finberg in his 1909 Inventory.1
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See Finberg 1909, II, p.649.
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Matthew Imms
December 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Pencil Stroke ?1825 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-pencil-stroke-r1172901, accessed 23 April 2024.