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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

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

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inscription by Turner: A Name ?1794
D40238
Pencil on white wove paper, 275 x 212 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Mr Lyte’ towards bottom left
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom left
Inscribed in a later hand in pencil ‘no 21’ bottom left, descending vertically
Inscribed in another hand (A.M. Hind?) in pencil ‘From 2nd Loan Collection’ towards bottom right
Inscribed in pencil ‘XXII.Aa’ bottom right
Inscribed in pencil ‘Recto D40237 / verso D40238’ bottom centre
Turner’s note refers to a patron who had commissioned a watercolour based on the drawing on the recto (D40237; Turner Bequest XXII Aa). See Tate D00331 and D00354 (Turner Bequest XXI E, XXII A) for other subjects commissioned by ‘Mr Lyte’.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Inscription by Turner: 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-inscription-by-turner-a-name-r1141096, accessed 29 March 2024.