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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Studies in the Louvre Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Commentary on Titian's 'St Peter Martyr' (Inscription by Turner) 1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Commentary on Titian's 'St Peter Martyr' (Inscription by Turner)’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Recto:
Commentary on Titian’s ‘St Peter Martyr’ (Inscription by Turner) 1802
D04307
Turner Bequest LXXII 28
Inscribed by Turner in black ink (see D04308), on white wove paper prepared with a pale reddish brown wash, 128 x 114 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘28’ top left (inverted)
Stamped in black ‘LXXII–28’ top left (inverted)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The inscription (written with the sketchbook inverted) continues Turner’s comments begun on the verso of this leaf (D04308), for which see catalogue entry for a full transcription and notes on Titian’s picture.

David Blayney Brown
July 2005

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Commentary on Titian’s ‘St Peter Martyr’ (Inscription by Turner) 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2005, 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-commentary-on-titians-st-peter-martyr-inscription-by-turner-r1129716, accessed 19 September 2024.