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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Verses (Inscriptions by Turner) 1809

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Verses (Inscriptions by Turner)’ 1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Verso:
Verses (Inscriptions by Turner) 1809
D07948
Turner Bequest CXIII 61a
Inscribed by Turner in pencil (see main catalogue entry) on white wove paper, 114 x 83 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These verses were first transcribed by Rosalind Mallord Turner, whose reading is followed here:
Again the thundering gun then fires
Again another helpless lies
Not the coarse ling or splashing Spring
Prevent oh no tis alike to him
Wades falls or swims [alike inserted] pursue
And must with blood his hand embrue
This passage belongs to the longer poem about a shooting accident for which see Introduction to the sketchbook and note to folio 13 verso (D07873).

David Blayney Brown
August 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Verses (Inscriptions by Turner) 1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2009, 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-verses-inscriptions-by-turner-r1135904, accessed 26 April 2024.