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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: Numbers and Dates ?1797

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: Numbers and Dates’ ?1797 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover:
Inscription by Turner: Numbers and Dates ?1797
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Ink on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 113 x 93 mm
Inscribed by Turner in ink with numbers and dates (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed by later hands (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed in pencil ‘XXXVII’ bottom left
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII’ top left
Inscribed in pencil by Arthur Magyer Hind (see main catalogue entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the top left, Turner has inscribed the following numbers and dates in pen and brown ink:
2866    4 Decr  97
6906    8 Dc    97
6765    3 Nov 97
4459    1 Decr 97
Across the centre of the page is the endorsement of the executors of the Turner Bequest, Henry Scott Trimmer, John Prescott Knight and Charles Lock Eastlake, in ink ‘No. 361 – | 66 leaves of sketches | in colour – | H S Trimmer’, and in pencil below to the left ‘JPK’ and ‘C.L.E.’.
There is a further pencil annotation by curator Arthur Magyer Hind, now rather faint against the brown wash:
Leaves replaced Nov 1934
128a)          after 120
128  )
                              AMH
This change was made at the time when many Turner Bequest sketchbooks were restored and rebound at the British Museum after the 1928 Tate Gallery flood. See the concordance in the Technical notes to the sketchbook’s Introduction.

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Inscription by Turner: Numbers and Dates ?1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-inscription-by-turner-numbers-and-dates-r1149809, accessed 16 April 2024.