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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Vatican Fragments Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Blank 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Blank’ 1819 (Blank right-hand page of sketchbook)
Blank right-hand page of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 76 Recto:
Blank
D15237
Turner Bequest CLXXX 75
Grey watercolour wash on paper 161 x 101 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXXX 75’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page has been prepared with a grey wash in readiness for further use. Peter Bower has noted that there are eight such leaves bound into this sketchbook, although the only one which has been worked upon is folio 71 verso (D15231, Turner Bequest CLXXX 70a). All the washed pages come from a single sheet of trimmed white wove Whatman paper.1 The bottom right-hand corner here has been torn off.

Nicola Moorby
December 2009

1
Peter Bower, Turner’s Papers: A Study of the Manufacture, Selection and Use of his Drawing Papers 1787–1820, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1990, p.115.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Blank by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 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-blank-r1139649, accessed 23 April 2024.