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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Accounts (Inscriptions by Turner) c.1810

Folio 60 Recto:
Accounts (Inscriptions by Turner) circa 1810
D07688
Turner Bequest CXI 60
Pencil and pen and ink on white wove paper, 110 x 88 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil and ink (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘60’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXI 60’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The inscription in ink reads:
150 
423.    5.    7 
573.    5.    7 
See comments to folio 59 of the sketchbook (D07686), which has accounts including the sum of £423. 5. 7 relating to payment received from the Hon. Charles Pelham for The Wreck of a Transport Ship (Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon)1 in 1810.
The inscription in pencil reads: ‘....shall send with the | consent of the owner | 40 with the choice of | 15 | 20 1’.
1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.128–9 no.210 (pl.213).
Verso:
Blank

David Blayney Brown
April 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Accounts (Inscriptions by Turner) c.1810’, catalogue entry, April 2011, 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/accounts-inscriptions-by-turner-r1131175, accessed 28 March 2024.