Joseph Mallord William Turner

Inscriptions by Turner: Notes Concerning Projected Rhine Subjects

1819

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Aesacus and Hesperie Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 87 x 119 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D13765
Turner Bequest CLXIX 8

Catalogue entry

Most of the page is taken up with the following inscription:
Mr Gerning to have an equivalent | for his notes for the 24 drawings | to the value of 30L: Dg Mr | A agreed to give him 10 numbers | at about 3L per number the | map now on the road £6
This is the conclusion of a passage begun on folio 7 recto (D13763), in W.B. Cooke’s handwriting, and continued in Turner’s on folio 7 verso opposite (D13764). The whole text is discussed under D13763.
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Matthew Imms
September 2013

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