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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner, and Continuation of a Sketch of Liverpool from Birkenhead 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner, and Continuation of a Sketch of Liverpool from Birkenhead’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
Inscription by Turner, and Continuation of a Sketch of Liverpool from Birkenhead 1831
D25649
Turner Bequest CCLXV 4
Pencil on white wove paper, 59 x 96 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner across the page
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘4’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXV 4’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page carries a long inscription by Turner which is transcribed below.
In one [of the/ often] [before/ bottom] of [Requiem/ Reason] on the [...] [...]
[be / he/ the] traveling from bury I get [opened / upon] [new / nor] [...]
and the [forms/ fumes] of the only [character/ churches] others [...]
tour of the north, and perhaps went as far as Mu... and he would allow only [the/ this]
[wife/ life] if the big what [...] in [work / week] [every/ any] [afternoon/ opinion]
of a approaching higher
At the bottom of the page is the continuation from folio 3 verso (D25648) of a sketch of Liverpool from Birkenhead.

Thomas Ardill
May 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Inscription by Turner, and Continuation of a Sketch of Liverpool from Birkenhead 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2010, 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-inscription-by-turner-and-continuation-of-a-sketch-of-r1134012, accessed 26 April 2024.