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 Inscription by Turner: Names and Addresses 1814

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: Names and Addresses’ 1814 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Inside Front Cover:
Inscription by Turner: Names and Addresses 1814
D40829
Pencil and ink offsetting on white wove paper, 119 x 82 mm
Inscribed in pencil with names, dates and addresses (see main catalogue entry)
Stamped in black ‘CXXXVI’ top left
Inscribed in pencil ‘3’ top left, ascending vertically
On this inside front cover of this sketchbook, across the middle Turner has written in pencil what appears to be two instances of dates with names and addresses, not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory:1
8 [?Tuesday] for
Fizwl [?tails] Mr P [?Wipny]
West B. 7. Thursday
[?Sailors P]
Little can be made of these typically cursory day–to–day memoranda. There is also a separate note, ‘32 [...]’ towards the bottom left.
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Technical notes:
At the top are three bands of various small blotches and smears of ink, apparently offset from the lost original upper portion of folio 1 recto opposite (D09987), which has been made good with similar modern paper. Only an apparent ‘W’ towards the end is fully legible, possibly being a reversed offset from the ‘J M W Turner’ stamp the artist very occasionally employed; compare the 1813 Plymouth, Hamoaze sketchbook (Tate D09481, D40579; Turner Bequest CXXXI 189a, and inside front cover), and the ink initials on the back of the Cockermouth sketchbook of 1809 and the front of the Large Farnley book of about 1816 (Tate; Turner Bequest CX; CXXVIII).

Vanessa Otim
March 2025

How to cite

Vanessa Otim, ‘Inscription by Turner: Names and Addresses 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/inscription-by-turner-names-and-addresses-r1213888, accessed 31 July 2026.