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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Colour Trials c.1789

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Colour Trials’ c.1789
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Verso:
Colour Trials c.1789
D40738
Watercolour on white laid paper, 160 x 249 mm
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The page is blank apart from colour trials along the top edge and lower right, apparently for the drawing on folio 4 recto (D00014); it is not listed in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue.1

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.3.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Colour Trials c.1789 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-colour-trials-r1140166, accessed 09 May 2024.