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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Accounts; A Building 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Accounts; A Building’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 276 Verso:
Accounts; A Building 1824
D20079
Turner Bequest CCXVI 269 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner with accounts (transcribed in main entry below)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The majority of this page is taken up with a list of accounts which continue onto the opposite folio (Tate D20080; Turner Bequest CCXVI 270). On this leaf the financial statements are dated between 25 September ‘23’ (probably 1823) and 26 July 1824. They probably represent income or expenditure. The accounts are transcribed thus:
1504             May 21             1824             10
       5                                                           10
       6                                                           10
16887             26 July           1824              10
         8                                                         10
         9                                                         10
  9644             15 July             1824            10
15702             10 June                                 10
3580              25 Sept              23               10
  7153             15 June               24               5
  3408             18 March            24               5
14740              1 March             24               5
                                                                   _____
                                                                     105

There is also a slight sketch of a building, drawn in the space below the accounts.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Accounts; A Building 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-accounts-a-building-r1174874, accessed 26 April 2024.