Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inscribed by Turner’s executors in ink and pencil (see main entry)
Inscribed in pencil ‘FRONT’, ‘CCXLIX’, ‘582’ towards top left
Stamped in black ‘CCXLIX’ top centre
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram towards top left
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
References
1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.756.
Turner’s executor Henry Scott Trimmer endorsed the top of this page with his signature and the note ‘No 266 | 44 sketches in pencil’. His co-executors, John Prescott Knight and Charles Lock Eastlake, left their initials in pencil below.
How to cite
John Chu, ‘Executors’ Notes 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-executors-notes-r1185082, accessed 07 July 2026.
