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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: Note of a Venetian Building 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: Note of a Venetian Building’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Recto:
Inscription by Turner: Note of a Venetian Building 1819
D14421
Turner Bequest CLXXV 56
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?Ratrine Corrna]’ top right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ’56’ bottom left, upside down and ‘300’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CLXXV 56’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s brief inscription, ignored by Finberg,1 was written with the page inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation. It presumably relates to the drawing on folio 55 verso opposite (D14420), where part of the Ca’ Corner della Regina is seen in the foreground, and the names of other palaces are noted.

Matthew Imms
March 2017

1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.514, and Finberg 1930, p.165.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Inscription by Turner: Note of a Venetian Building 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, July 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-inscription-by-turner-note-of-a-venetian-building-r1186533, accessed 25 April 2024.