Joseph Mallord William Turner

Verses (Inscriptions ?by Turner)

1808

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Derbyshire Sketchbook
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
Support: 185 × 108 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D07146
Turner Bequest CVI 11 a

Catalogue entry

The verses inscribed here (not certainly by Turner) continue the poem ‘John Bull Content’ begun on the recto (D07145), for which see catalogue note for a full transcription with comment.

David Blayney Brown
July 2010

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