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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: Title of Sketchbook c.1798-9

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: Title of Sketchbook’ c.1798-9 (Front cover of sketchbook)
Front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Front Cover:
Inscription by Turner: Title of Sketchbook c.1798–9
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Pen and ink on brown calf leather sketchbook cover, 229 x 140 mm
Inscribed by Turner in ink ‘Academical’ at centre, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg also records a lost paper label from the sketchbook’s spine: ‘Turner’s label on back – “35. Academy”’.1

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Finberg 1909, I, p.105.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Inscription by Turner: Title of Sketchbook c.1798–9 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, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-inscription-by-turner-title-of-sketchbook-r1174014, accessed 19 April 2024.