Joseph Mallord William Turner

Costings for the ‘Liber Studiorum’ (Inscriptions by Turner)

c.1809–14

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In Tate Britain

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Hastings Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 110 × 88 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D07748
Turner Bequest CXI 97

Catalogue entry

Turner’s inscriptions read:
 
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/          1          443 
/ 
/ 
 
/ 
/          2          443 
/ 
/ 
 
/ 
/          3          443 
/ 
/ 
 
/
/          4          443 
/ 
/ 
 
/ 
/          5          443 
/ 
/                   ----- 
                     2215 
These figures seem to be a subset of those beginning with ‘443’ on folio 96 verso (D07747), and to relate to five numbers of the Liber Studiorum of four plates each.

David Blayney Brown
May 2011

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