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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1813 > Plymouth, Hamoaze Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: Title of Sketchbook 1813

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: Title of Sketchbook’ 1813 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Back Cover:
Inscription by Turner: Title of Sketchbook 1813
D40583
Ink on brown leather cover, 160 x 98 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pen and black ink ‘Devon Coast | Plymouth’ top centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In his Turner Bequest Inventory, Finberg adopted the wording ‘116. Plymouth. Hamoaze’1 as a title for the sketchbook from Turner’s label on its spine (since lost), rather than the different parameters noted by Turner here.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

1
Transcribed in Finberg 1909, I, p.366.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Inscription by Turner: Title of Sketchbook 1813 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-title-of-sketchbook-r1148212, accessed 25 April 2024.