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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: A Note c.1795

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: A Note’ c.1795 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover:
Inscription by Turner: A Note c.1795
D40756
Pencil on white wove paper, 130 x 205 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Lent Mr Nixon 2 12.6’ top right
Inscribed by the Executors of the Turner Bequest, Henry Scott Trimmer, Charles Turner, John Prescott Knight and Charles Lock Eastlake, in ink ‘No 295. Contains 32 Sketches in Pencel | & Colors. H.S. Trimmer’ | ‘C Turner.’ and in pencil ‘JPK’ and ‘C.L.E.’ top centre
Stamped in black ‘XXV’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Rev. Robert Nixon of The Parsonage, Foot’s Cray, Kent, was an amateur watercolourist who had known the artist since his youth, and became his pupil. That Turner was earning money as a drawing master by this date is testified to in the inscription on folio 1 recto (D00462), with a list of names marked ‘Teaching’.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Inscription by Turner: A Note c.1795 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-a-note-r1140780, accessed 10 May 2024.