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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Harbour (possibly Calais); Sums 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Harbour (possibly Calais); Sums’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 276 Recto:
Harbour (possibly Calais); Sums 1824
D20078
Turner Bequest CCXVI 269
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner with sums top left (transcribed in main entry below)
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘269’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–269’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner records two harbour scenes, possibly taken at Calais (see Tate D20077; Turner Bequest CCXVI 268a). There is also an arithmetical sum inscribed at the top right of the page when the sketchbook is orientated in accordance with the foliation. It may be associated with the accounts written on Tate D20079–D20080; Turner Bequest CCXVI 269a–270. The sum is a simple addition, with another numeral written below. It is transcribed thus:
             36
             15
            ___
             51
             
             44

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Harbour (possibly Calais); Sums 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-harbour-possibly-calais-sums-r1174873, accessed 25 April 2024.