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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Farnley Hall and Yorkshire c.1808-24 > Scarborough 2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: Title of Sketchbook c.1816-18

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: Title of Sketchbook’ c.1816-18 (Front cover of sketchbook)
Front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Front Cover:
Inscription by Turner: Title of Sketchbook c.1816–18
D40709
Pen and ink on marbled paper cover, 182 x 116 mm
Inscribed by Turner in ink ‘Scarborough’ top centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The blue and pink marbled paper covers are printed with text titled ‘Lives of the Evangelists’.

Matthew Imms
May 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Inscription by Turner: Title of Sketchbook c.1816–18 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-inscription-by-turner-title-of-sketchbook-r1146973, accessed 25 April 2024.