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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Liber Studiorum notes c.1807-19 > Aesacus and Hesperie Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: Draft of a Note Concerning a Property Dispute c.1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: Draft of a Note Concerning a Property Dispute’ c.1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Recto:
Inscription by Turner: Draft of a Note Concerning a Property Dispute c.1819
D13792
Turner Bequest CLXIX 27
Pencil on white wove paper, 119 x 87 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘27’ bottom left, descending vertically (faint and smudged)
Stamped in black ‘CLXIX – 27’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The whole page, turned vertically, is taken up with the following note:
of havg peaceable | possession – but | <...> found a | Tenant named | Martha [?Friday] | in possession of part | of the [?premises]
This is the second of four pages, running from folio 26 verso opposite (D13791) to folio 28 recto (D13794), filled with a note concerning a woman being evicted from a property. The full text is given and discussed under D13791.

Matthew Imms
September 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Inscription by Turner: Draft of a Note Concerning a Property Dispute c.1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2013, 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-draft-of-a-note-concerning-a-property-r1147515, accessed 20 September 2024.