Joseph Mallord William Turner

Inscription by Turner: Number and Initial of Sketchbook

c.1805–7

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Hesperides (2) Sketchbook
Medium
Dimensions
None
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D41506

Catalogue entry

The label on the spine of the Hesperides (1) sketchbook (Tate D40636; Turner Bequest XCIII) is similar, originally having read ‘71 H’, although following an addition by another hand it now reads ‘71 Hesperides Bk’.
Unusually, Finberg omitted to mention or transcribe the present label in his 1909 catalogue of the Turner Bequest.1

Matthew Imms
November 2012

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.244.

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