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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views; and Inscriptions 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views; and Inscriptions’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 91 Verso:
Two Views; and Inscriptions 1834
D26435
Turner Bequest CCLXIX 91a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 190 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Road’ upper centre, and a list of numbers, see main catalogue entry
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn at the top of the page with the foredge of the page at the top are two quick sketches of views of a landscape with trees and a tower labelled ‘Road’. The second sketch includes a narrow tower that somewhat resembles sketches of Douglas Old Castle as depicted elsewhere in this sketchbook (for example folio 22 verso; D26302).
With the sketchbook turned in the opposite direction is a list, written by Turner in pencil, of numbers, which are perhaps accounts. The list reads as follows:
15 []Works 154
Mr B[...] – 13
186
156
26
186

Thomas Ardill
February 2011

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Two Views; and Inscriptions 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-views-and-inscriptions-r1136365, accessed 26 April 2024.