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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscriptions by Turner 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscriptions by Turner’ 1839 (Front cover of sketchbook)
Front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Front Cover:
Inscriptions by Turner 1839
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Pen and black ink on white paper label and on brown and white marbled paper cover, 165 x 110 mm
White paper label inscribed in black ink by Turner ‘No 1 Brussels up to Givet’ | ‘2. Givet Mis Ver Metz Lux Treves’ | ‘3. First Mossel and Oxford’ | ‘4. Mayence Wis Coblenz and 2 Mosel to Cochem’ | ‘5. Cockum to Cob. Home’
Marbled paper inscribed in black ink by Turner ‘4’ at top left
Label blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Label inscribed ‘CCXC’ bottom towards right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
On the front cover of this sketchbook is affixed a white paper label inscribed in pen and black ink by Turner with a list of the five sketchbooks used during the 1839 Meuse-Mosel tour. The inscriptions read:
‘No 1 Brussels up to Givet’ | ‘2. Givet Mis Ver Metz Lux Treves’ | ‘3. First Mossel and Oxford’ | ‘4. Mayence Wis Coblenz and 2 Mosel to Cochem’ | ‘5. Cockum to Cob. Home’
The list describes the stages of the tour and designates the order in which Turner intended the sketchbooks to be viewed. The number ‘4’, which is inscribed in black ink at the top left of the front cover, indicates that this sketchbook is the fourth in the group.
For more information on Turner’s visits at each of the stages described above see the general Introduction to The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Inscriptions by Turner 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-inscriptions-by-turner-r1150634, accessed 18 April 2024.