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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > North Wales 1799-1801 > Lancashire and North Wales Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: A Name and Address 1799

Image 1 of 2
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: A Name and Address’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
First Flyleaf, Verso:
Inscription by Turner: A Name and Address 1799
D41269
Pencil on white wove paper, 329 x 225 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Mr Edw. Swinburne | to be left at Payne & MacKinley’s Booksellers Strand’ at top
Inscribed by John Prescott Knight in pencil ‘JPK’ towards top centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Edward Swinburne (1762–1860), of Capheaton Hall, County Durham, see the sketchbook’s Introduction. John Prescott Knight’s initials appear again as part of the usual Turner Bequest Executors’ endorsement of this sketchbook, inside the front cover (D41267).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Inscription by Turner: A Name and Address 1799 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 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-inscription-by-turner-a-name-and-address-r1177785, accessed 26 April 2024.