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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > Givet, Mézières, Verdun, Metz, Luxemburg ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner’ 1839 (Back cover of sketchbook)
Back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Back Cover:
Inscription by Turner 1839
D41089
Pen and ink and pencil on leather spine, 172 x 105 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘2’ and by Ruskin in black ink ‘great Fortress’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There is an inverted number ‘2’ inscribed in pencil by Turner at the bottom of the spine, and a later inscription in black ink by John Ruskin which reads ‘great Fortress’ (for more information see the general Introduction to the sketchbook).

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Inscription by Turner 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, 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-r1150569, accessed 20 September 2024.