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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Erotica and Improvisations c.1834-6 > Fishing at the Weir Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: ?Accounts c.1834-6

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: ?Accounts’ c.1834-6
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Recto:
Inscription by Turner: ?Accounts c.1834–6
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Turner Bequest CCLXXXI 6
Ink on white wove paper, 79 x 101 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘6’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXI – 6’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Across the top of the page, Turner has inscribed the following in ink, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation:
Nov 2   –   3   1 – 10
Oct 11  –   26   5
There is an ink mark above the ‘2’ which might be an ‘a’ or ‘n’, or just a pen test. The significance of the figures is unclear, but they are perhaps typically ad hoc notes of money owed to or by the artist, in pounds, shillings and pence. This is one of a few miscellaneous pages of notes scattered through the sketchbook, as set out in the Introduction.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Inscription by Turner: ?Accounts c.1834–6 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-accounts-r1149098, accessed 09 May 2024.