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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Farnley Hall and Yorkshire c.1808-24 > The Aqueduct Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Verses on 'Sweet Independence...' (Inscription by Turner) c.1816-18

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Verses on 'Sweet Independence...' (Inscription by Turner)’ c.1816-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Verso:
Verses on ‘Sweet Independence...’ (Inscription by Turner) c.1816–18
D11975
Turner Bequest CLII 1a
Pencil on white wove paper, 180 x 117 mm
Watermarked ‘[WILL]MOTT | [18]12’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil with verses (see main catalogue entry)
Stamped in brown ‘CLIII 1a’ bottom left
Continued from the recto (D11974; Turner Bequest CLII 1) this is the draft of a poem on the theme of ‘Sweet Independence’, but Turner’s writing is now too rubbed to be deciphered.

David Hill
September 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Verses on ‘Sweet Independence...’ (Inscription by Turner) c.1816–18 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-verses-on-sweet-independence-inscription-by-turner-r1147002, accessed 19 April 2024.