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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern France 1832 > Loose Studies of Paris and the Seine > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Notes in White Chalk c.1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Notes in White Chalk’ c.1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Notes in White Chalk c.1833
D40076
White chalk on blue paper, 139 x 191 mm
Stamped in black with the Turner Bequest monogram and ‘CCLIX 85’ centre
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCLIX.85’ centre
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing was not recorded by Finberg in his Turner Bequest Inventory. Inverted in relation to the sheet as catalogued, large white chalk ‘8’ has been inscribed onto to the right-hand side of this blue piece of paper.
Technical notes:
The verso of this sheet is catalogued under the entry for Tate D24650 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 85). There is a red mark on the right-hand edge of the sheet.

John Chu
August 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Notes in White Chalk c.1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-notes-in-white-chalk-r1173091, accessed 25 April 2024.