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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: A Name and Address ?1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: A Name and Address’ ?1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inscription by Turner: A Name and Address ?1794
D40236
Pencil on white wove paper, 216 x 276 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Mr Fonnereau | 16 Hereford St’ and ‘3½’ top right
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed in pencil bottom left ‘D00349 D40236’
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Apart from Turner’s inscription, the sheet is blank, with scattered smears of blue colour. The recto is Tate D00349 (Turner Bequest XXI V).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Inscription by Turner: A Name and Address ?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-a-name-and-address-r1141083, accessed 27 April 2024.