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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: Lists of Figures c.1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: Lists of Figures’ c.1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Inscription by Turner: Lists of Figures c.1794
D00261
Turner Bequest XX 1a
Pencil on white laid paper, 152 x 99 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil with columns of figures (see main catalogue entry)
Stamped twice in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram bottom left and centre
Stamped in black ‘XX’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The whole page is taken up with the following figures in pencil:
31 Do  2 /-   85 
2    – 3       8 – 6 
4    – 3       7 – 6 
               5 
  2  – 4       7 – 6  8 
  2    4       5 
  2    4       5 
  2    4       5    62 
  2    4       5 
  3    7 – 6  10 
  1.1. 3 – 6   8 – 6 [‘8’ converted into ‘7’]  
  1.1. 3 – 6   3 – 6 
       2 – 6   3   6 
       7 – 6 
       2   6   2 – 6 
   2   6       7   6 
   2   5       2   5 
   2   6   8   6 - 
     3     8 
   3   7   6   5 
     8 5   4       0 
       4 

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Inscription by Turner: Lists of Figures c.1794 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-inscription-by-turner-lists-of-figures-r1140653, accessed 25 April 2024.