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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Perspective lectures c.1809-28 > II. Various Perspective Diagrams > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Blank date not known

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Blank’ date not known
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Blank
D40265
Watermarked ‘J WHATMAN | TURKEY MILL | 1823’
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘28’ bottom left
Stamped in black ‘CXCV 3’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The verso of a perspective diagram (Tate D40265; Turner Bequest CXCV 3), this side is blank except for the paw prints of a cat.

Andrea Fredericksen
June 2004

Supported by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Revised by David Blayney Brown
January 2012

How to cite

Andrea Fredericksen, ‘Blank by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2004, revised by David Blayney Brown, 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-blank-r1136791, accessed 08 May 2025.