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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: Title of Sketchbook c.1805

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: Title of Sketchbook’ c.1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inscription by Turner: Title of Sketchbook circa 1805
D40344
Ink on marbled laid paper sketchbook cover, 257 x 364 mm
Inscribed by Turner in ink ‘Thames from | Reading to | Walton’ top left, ascending vertically
Verso:
Blank endpaper; inscribed by the Executors of the Turner Bequest (for a transcription see the introduction to the sketchbook); inscribed in pencil ‘XCV’; stamped in black ‘XCV’.

Matthew Imms
November 2012

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Inscription by Turner: Title of Sketchbook c.1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 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-inscription-by-turner-title-of-sketchbook-r1140380, accessed 26 April 2024.