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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Record of a Banknote Cashed at Richmond, Yorkshire (Inscription by Turner) 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Record of a Banknote Cashed at Richmond, Yorkshire (Inscription by Turner)’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Record of a Banknote Cashed at Richmond, Yorkshire (Inscription by Turner) 1816
D11039
Turner Bequest CXLIV 105
Pen and ink on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm (restored)
Inscribed by Turner in brown ink ‘Richmond Y – 16135 – 5 11 May 1816’
Trace of an inscription, possibly John Ruskin, in red ink top right
Stamped in black ‘CXLIV 105’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner records the cashing of a £5 banknote, numbered 16135, on 11 May 1816 at Richmond Yorkshire.1 This is an unusually direct indication of the date of the sketchbook and the same banknote is recorded in the Yorkshire 2 sketchbook (Tate D11370; Turner Bequest CXLV 186a), in a list, apparently, of all the banknotes that Turner took with him on his tour in 1816.
Over three-quarters of this page were torn out, presumably by Turner as, later on, the Turner Bequest stamp was applied on the surviving stump. The page has since been restored and made up with modern paper.
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Turner did not sketch Richmond in the present sketchbook, but did so in the Yorkshire 3 sketchbook (Tate D11412; Turner Bequest CXLVI 27), which accompanied him on the same itinerary.
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David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Record of a Banknote Cashed at Richmond, Yorkshire (Inscription by Turner) 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-record-of-a-banknote-cashed-at-richmond-yorkshire-r1144228, accessed 17 June 2025.