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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Wreath; Inscription by Turner: Accounts c.1817-18

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Wreath; Inscription by Turner: Accounts’ c.1817-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 69 Verso:
A Wreath; Inscription by Turner: Accounts c.1817–18
D12222
Turner Bequest CLIV a 68a
Pencil on white wove paper, 89 x 112 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the centre of the wreath, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, is inscribed: ‘[...] | 31 – | 1818’. It is possible that the first word is ‘Dec’ overwritten with ‘Jany’ or vice versa, or some other combination of abbreviated months.
With the page turned vertically, the following pencil accounts run down from the gutter:
30 March paid Miss West   3 
15 April  ditto           7. – 10 
   Watson   23 April      –    10 
   Twitson.   12 Feby –         5 
The significance of the names and sums involved has yet to be determined.

Matthew Imms
September 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Wreath; Inscription by Turner: Accounts c.1817–18 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-a-wreath-inscription-by-turner-accounts-r1147639, accessed 25 April 2024.