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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Landscape Sketch c.1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Landscape Sketch’ c.1819 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover
Landscape Sketch circa 1819
D40678
Turner Bequest CLXXII
Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 99 mm
Inscribed in ink ‘No.388– | 16 leaves of pencil & pen and ink | sketches | H.S. Trimmer’ and initialled in pencil by Charles Lock Eastlake and John Prescott Knight, ‘C.L.E.’ and ‘J.P.K.’ top right, parallel with right-hand edge
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘CLXXII’ top right, descending right-hand edge
Stamped in ink ‘CLXXII’ top right, descending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The inside cover of the front of this sketchbook contains a very faint sketch of an unidentified landscape.
The page is also numbered ‘388’ as part of the Turner Schedule in 1854 and endorsed by the Executors of the Turner Bequest.

Nicola Moorby
July 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Landscape Sketch c.1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-landscape-sketch-r1138753, accessed 19 April 2024.