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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Lake Thun Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscriptions 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscriptions’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Verso:
Inscriptions 1802
D40784
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil (see main catalogue entry) on white laid paper, 201 x 156 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘5845’ top left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The inscriptions read ‘de Lauchingen’, ‘de Küssenberger Schloss’ and ‘Kusser’. Finberg, transcribing only the second in his note to the recto of this leaf (D04728), associated it with the ‘castle of Küssenberg, near Schaffhausen’. The reference is actually to Schloss Küssaberg, near Lauchringen. Written in a large, florid and rather archaic script very different from the other hasty notations in this book, this is not certainly in Turner’s own hand. As the castle was ruined it was presumably not the site of the kitchen interior drawn on the recto.

David Blayney Brown
March 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Inscriptions 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2004, 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-inscriptions-r1133205, accessed 19 April 2024.