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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Diagram; and Inscriptions 1821

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Diagram; and Inscriptions’ 1821
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Recto:
A Diagram; and Inscriptions 1821
D18540
Turner Bequest CCXI 10
Brown ink and pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil and brown ink by Turner, see transcription below
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘10’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXI – 10’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn in brown ink at the bottom right of the page is a diagram, probably to do with perspective. Across the top half of the page Turner has inscribed in pencil a list of watercolour commissions for Walter Fawkes, some of which can be identified and dated to 1821, helping to confirm the date of this sketchbook:
‘Mt. Cenis –
Vesuvius
Fusina }150 Gs [Venice from Fusina, 1821 (private collection)]1
Venice [Venice: The Rialto, 1820–1 (Indianapolis Museum of Art, Gift in memory of Dr. and Mrs. Hugo O. Pantzer by their Children)]2
Windermere [Windermere, 1821 (Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria)]3
St. Peters – [Interior of St Peter’s Rome, 1821 (The Morgan Library & Museum, New York )]4
Swords and Illustrations to Book. 5 Gs [a Fairfaxiana watercolour]
Oak Chest. Farnley D. 10 Gs’ [Fairfaxiana – Cabinet with Opening Doors, c.1815 (private collection)]
The following calculations are inscribed in pencil beneath:
‘165 – 173 – 5
Interest of 750. one year 37 – 10. 37 – 10
Total. 210 – 15’
And inscribed beneath that in brown ink:
‘Milan
Florence
Simplon
Ramage’

Thomas Ardill
March 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.383 no.721
2
Ibid., p.383 no.718.
3
Ibid., no.555.
4
Ibid., p.383 no.724.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘A Diagram; and Inscriptions 1821 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-diagram-and-inscriptions-r1146236, accessed 26 April 2024.