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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: An Address and a Name c.1808-18

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: An Address and a Name’ c.1808-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 65 Verso:
Inscription by Turner: An Address and a Name c.1808–18
D12214
Turner Bequest CLIV a 64a
Pencil on white wove paper, 53 x 89 mm
Inscribed by Turner (see main catalogue entry) in pencil
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned vertically, this page – missing its outer half, which has been roughly torn away – is inscribed ‘40 [?Chancery] | Mrs Starkey’. Finberg’s reading of the first word may well be correct, although it tails off. Lincoln’s Inn Chambers, a modern building, now occupies 40–43 Chancery Lane, east of Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London’s legal quarter. Who Mrs Starkey was, and whether she lived at the address or had dealings with Turner through lawyers there, has yet to be established.

Matthew Imms
September 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Inscription by Turner: An Address and a Name c.1808–18 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-an-address-and-a-name-r1147631, accessed 23 September 2024.