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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: Italian and English Anatomical Terms c.1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: Italian and English Anatomical Terms’ c.1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Recto:
Inscription by Turner: Italian and English Anatomical Terms circa 1809
D07462
Turner Bequest CVIII 63
Pencil on white wove paper, 88 x 115 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Genocchio top of knee’ top left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘63’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CVIII – 63’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These equivalent Italian and English terms relate to a longer list of Italian anatomical terms with translations opposite on folio 62 verso (D07461). Maurice Davies has not identified the source.1

Matthew Imms
June 2008

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Davies 1994, p.289.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Inscription by Turner: Italian and English Anatomical Terms c.1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-inscription-by-turner-italian-and-english-anatomical-terms-r1136658, accessed 05 May 2025.