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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country and Yorkshire 1814-17 > Devon Rivers, No.2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: ?A Draft of Poetry ?1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: ?A Draft of Poetry’ ?1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Verso:
Inscription by Turner: ?A Draft of Poetry ?1814
D09772
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 75a
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Part watermark ‘Fell | 18’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil (see main catalogue entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page comprises two columns of largely illegible text in pencil, of which only occasional, random words can be made out; it is not clear whether they comprise poetry or prose. The lyrical fragment on folio 76 recto opposite (D09773), ‘Gone are the dews of morn [...] | Few are [...] of the’, is probably related, suggesting that the current passage may also be in verse. The pages are not mentioned in Andrew Wilton and Rosalind Mallord Turner’s study and transcriptions of Turner’s poetry.1 See also folios 1 recto and 77 recto (D09668, D09775).

Matthew Imms
July 2014

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Andrew Wilton and Rosalind Mallord Turner, Painting and Poetry: Turner’s ‘Verse Book’ and his Work of 1804–1812, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1990.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Inscription by Turner: ?A Draft of Poetry ?1814 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2014, 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-inscription-by-turner-a-draft-of-poetry-r1147323, accessed 23 April 2024.