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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Views 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 261 Recto:
Views 1824
D20050
Turner Bequest CCXVI 254
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘7 Franc 44 [?pence]’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘254’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–254’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These extremely rough sketches, more an assemblage of irregular marks, are thought to show ‘views’, perhaps of a river or harbour. At the top of the sheet Turner has inscribed the note: ‘7 Franc 44 pence’. This is presumably the price for some item he came across and his use of ‘pence’ should probably be understood as ‘centime’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Views 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2014, 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-views-r1174845, accessed 25 April 2024.