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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Blank 1816

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Recto:
Blank
D11518
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 1
White wove paper, 173 x 260 mm
Watermarked ‘[WHA]TMAN | [18]15’
Endorsed by the Executors of the Turner Bequest in ink ‘No.263 | 40 pencil sketches’ top left, signed by Henry Scott Trimmer in ink ‘H S Trimmer’ and initialled by John Prescott Knight in pencil ‘JPK’ and Charles Lock Eastlake in pencil ‘C.L.E.’
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘CXLVIII’
Stamped in black ‘CXLVIII – 1’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner left the page blank; the Turner Bequest Executors’ endorsement is transcribed above.
Verso:
Blank

David Hill
May 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Blank by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-blank-r1143659, accessed 26 April 2024.