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

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J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: Notes on Pigment Colours c.1827-35

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: Notes on Pigment Colours’ c.1827-35
Inscription by Turner: Notes on Pigment Colours c.1827–35
D29010
Turner Bequest CCXCII 59v
Pencil on grey wove paper, 98 x 204 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner with notes (see main catalogue entry)
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner made these pencil notes, a list of paint pigments, on the verso of Tate D29007 (Turner Bequest CCXCII 58) and D29009 (Turner Bequest CCXCII 59), two scenes associated with the landscape around Petworth drawn on the same sheet of grey paper. Also on the verso, to the left of these notes, he made a slight study of ships (see the entry for D29008; CCXCII 58v).
The notes appear to read:
‘White | Raw ochre | Raw sienna | Bt – | Bt Umber | R – | Black | [?Nap] Yellow’
For information about the dating of this sheet, see under D29007.

Elizabeth Jacklin
December 2018

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘Inscription by Turner: Notes on Pigment Colours c.1827–35’, catalogue entry, December 2018, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2024, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/inscription-by-turner-notes-on-pigment-colours-r1209103, accessed 13 December 2025.