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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscriptions by Turner: Annotations to a Printed List of Days of the Week 1840

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscriptions by Turner: Annotations to a Printed List of Days of the Week’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inscriptions by Turner: Annotations to a Printed List of Days of the Week 1840
D41029
Pencil on engraved text on white wove paper, 105 x 25 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil with abbreviated days of the week (see main catalogue entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This narrow rectangular strip (with one corner trimmed at a slight angle) is fed through slots in the perpetual calendar printed on folio 92 verso (D41028) of this Dutch-produced notebook. It is printed with a fortnight’s days of the week, ‘Zondag. | Maandag. | Dingsdag. | Woensdag. | Donderdag. | Vrijsdag. | Zaturdag.’, repeated up to a second ‘Zaturdag.’ Turner has written abbreviate English equivalents in pencil beside the second sequence: ‘Sun | Mon | Tues | Wed | Thur | Fri | Sat’. French versions are also noted in pencil on the main page to the left of where the strip is visible.
There is part of a pencil drawing on the other side (D41027), where it lay over the surface of folio 92 recto (D32443).

Matthew Imms
September 2018

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Inscriptions by Turner: Annotations to a Printed List of Days of the Week 1840 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2018, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-inscriptions-by-turner-annotations-to-a-printed-list-of-days-r1196680, accessed 27 April 2026.