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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 72 Recto:
Inscription by Turner 1819
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Turner Bequest CLXXXIII 72
Pencil and traces of grey watercolour wash on white wove paper, 253 x 200 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Clasp’ centre right-hand edge
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in faded red ink ‘72’ bottom right and by an unknown hand in pencil ‘72’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXIII 72’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The inscribed word ‘clasp’ on this page corresponds with the position of the brass clasp which once fastened the covers of this sketchbook and perhaps indicates that the sheets within may have been bound up to Turner’s specifications following the artist’s 1819–20 tour of Italy.1 Peter Bower, however, has rejected James Hamilton’s theory that Turner did this for all of the sketchbooks used on this tour.2
1
Hamilton 1997, pp.203–4 and 326 note 40.
2
Bower 1999, p.40.
Verso:
Blank, except for grey watercolour wash

Nicola Moorby
September 2009

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Inscription by Turner 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-inscription-by-turner-r1137820, accessed 24 April 2024.