J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country and Yorkshire 1814-17 > Review at Portsmouth Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Blank 1814

Sorry, no image is available of this artwork
Folio 1 Recto:
Blank 1814
D09987
Turner Bequest CXXXVI 1
Inscribed in red ink ‘1’ bottom right (smudged)
Stamped in black ‘CXXXVI – 1’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The lost upper half of this page was likely (and unusually) stamped in ink by Turner with his initials and surname, of which there are a very few surviving examples dating from 1809 to 1816betwas discussed in the entry for the inside front cover opposite (D40829), where there is partial offsetting in reverse.
Technical notes:
As Finberg noted, the top half has been torn away,1 and made good with similar modern paper, perhaps during conservation work after the 1928 Tate Gallery flood.
1
Finberg 1909, II, p.389.
Verso:
Blank

Vanessa Otim
March 2025

How to cite

Vanessa Otim, ‘Blank 1814’, catalogue entry, March 2025, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, July 2026, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/blank-r1213889, accessed 31 July 2026.