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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscriptions by Turner: Notes including a Name and Address c.1808-11

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscriptions by Turner: Notes including a Name and Address’ c.1808-11 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
Inscriptions by Turner: Notes including a Name and Address circa 1808–11
D07959
Pencil on white wove paper, 87 x 117 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil (see main catalogue entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has inscribed the following in pencil at the top left: ‘Rolfe | 33 Ossulton Street, Summer Town’. The reference is to Ossulston [sic] Street, London, running north from Euston Road and now forming the western boundary of the British Library site; to the west are the housing estates of Somers Town, and nothing remains in the street from Turner’s time.
This is as much as Finberg was able to transcribe, but there are roughly inscribed and rubbed words and numbers below of which only occasional letters and figures can be made out. Along the outer edge, with the page turned vertically, are three fainter lines: [?James] 6 [?New Howick] St | [...] Sold by [...] | Knight [...] 27 [...]’.
Technical notes:
This endpaper forms the outer face of a bellows-type pocket set inside the back cover.

Matthew Imms
January 2012

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Inscriptions by Turner: Notes including a Name and Address c.1808–11 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2012, 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-by-turner-notes-including-a-name-and-address-r1134863, accessed 24 April 2024.