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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Executors' Inscriptions c.1856

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Executors' Inscriptions’ c.1856
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Recto:
Executors’ Inscriptions c.1856
D10868
Turner Bequest CXLIV 1
Pen and ink and pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm
Trace of inscription in red ink, possibly by John Ruskin, ‘1’ bottom right
Very faint trace of an inscription in red ink, possibly by John Ruskin, ‘1’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CXLIV 1’ bottom right
Inscribed by Henry Scott Trimmer in ink ‘No 261 – | 78 leaves of pencil sketches | H. S. Trimmer’ and initialled in pencil by Charles Lock Eastlake ‘C.L.E.’ and John Prescott Knight ‘JPK’
Inscribed in pencil ‘CXLIV’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page is preceded by the blank verso, not numbered, of a folio of white wove paper, pasted to the verso of the marbled endpaper.

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Executors’ Inscriptions c.1856 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-executors-inscriptions-r1144055, accessed 26 April 2024.