Joseph Mallord William Turner

Inscription by Turner: ?Topographical Notes

c.1836

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Fishing at the Weir Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 101 × 79 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D27773
Turner Bequest CCLXXXI 26

Catalogue entry

With the page turned vertically, Turner has made the following pencil notes:
L[...] – R[...]
to Z[...] [pictogram] [?Hill slip]
Such as it is, this reading is based on Finberg’s, as these few words are very difficult to decipher, and what appears to be a tiny drawing or pictogram in the second line may not be the ‘church tower’ he suggests.1 The words may however be Continental place names, as on the verso and both sides of folio 27 (D27774–D27776), which seem to relate to Turner’s tour to the Alps in 1836, as discussed under D27774.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

1
Finberg 1909, II, p.907.

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