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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: ?Details of a Commission c.1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: ?Details of a Commission’ c.1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 106 Recto:
Inscription by Turner: ?Details of a Commission c.1798
D01248
Pencil on white wove paper, 332 x 229 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Thos: Wakefield | Northwich | Cheshire Oil Picture £32’ at top
This heavy pencil inscription, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, is possibly connected with the unidentified landscape subject on folio 105 recto (D01344; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 90). The price is almost obliterated.
Technical notes:
There are some grey, red and blue paint smears.
Verso:
Blank; not stamped.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Inscription by Turner: ?Details of a Commission c.1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, 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-inscription-by-turner-details-of-a-commission-r1173246, accessed 19 September 2024.