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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Colour Trials 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 115 Recto:
Colour Trials 1799
D02166
Turner Bequest XLVI 115
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘115’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLVI – 115’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This otherwise blank page features some paint smears and colour trials connected with the watercolour on folio 114 verso opposite (D02165).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Colour Trials 1799 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-colour-trials-r1180025, accessed 04 April 2026.