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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: A Draft of Poetry c.1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: A Draft of Poetry’ c.1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Recto:
Inscription by Turner: A Draft of Poetry c.1830
D41227
Pencil on white wove paper, 76 x 33 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil with lines of poetry (see main catalogue entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, and not numbered specifically by Finberg but described as a ‘fragment’,1 the surviving portion of this page includes the beginnings of lines of verse in a scrawled and near-illegible hand, continuing across the full width of folio 16 verso opposite (D35788), under which a fragmentary attempt at a transcription is made. For the several pages of poetry in this sketchbook and a discussion of their theme, see the Introduction.
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Finberg 1909, II, p.1177.
Technical notes:
Two thirds of the leaf have been torn away, leaving a stub extending some 33 mm at its widest, compared with the 98 mm of the intact pages.
Verso:
Blank

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Inscription by Turner: A Draft of Poetry c.1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-inscription-by-turner-a-draft-of-poetry-r1183752, accessed 21 September 2024.