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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Perspective lectures c.1809-28 > Perspective Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Blank c.1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 74 Recto:
Blank
D07476
Turner Bequest CVIII 74
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘[?75]’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CVIII – 74’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Ruskin seems to have lost count for a few pages at this point: see also Tate D07474 and D07478 (Turner Bequest CVIII 73, 75). The inscription is now very faint and blurred but appears to read ‘75’, which he also (correctly) inscribed on the following leaf.

Matthew Imms
June 2008

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Blank by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2008, 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-blank-r1136672, accessed 04 October 2025.