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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscriptions by Turner and ?not by Turner: A Place Name; a Name ?1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscriptions by Turner and ?not by Turner: A Place Name; a Name’ ?1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Recto:
Inscriptions by Turner and ?not by Turner: A Place Name; a Name ?1794
D00248
Turner Bequest XIX 35v
Pen and brown ink on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pen and brown ink ‘Wollaton Hall’ top left
Inscribed ?in another hand in pencil ’Lord Middleton’ towards top left
Stamped in black ink with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘35’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘XIX 35’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These inscriptions, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, refer to the drawing on the verso of this leaf (D00247); compare folio 34 recto (D00245).
Finberg conflated the recto and verso of this leaf, transcribing the inscription verso as though it were on the recto, and listing no verso. This confusion led to the present work being given the pseudo-Turner Bequest page number ‘35v’, as though it were the verso of the leaf.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Inscriptions by Turner and ?not by Turner: A Place Name; a Name ?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-inscriptions-by-turner-and-not-by-turner-a-place-name-a-name-r1140765, accessed 24 April 2024.