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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Another Hand ?and Turner: Notes of Artists' Materials and Prices 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Another Hand ?and Turner: Notes of Artists' Materials and Prices’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Verso:
Inscription by Another Hand ?and Turner: Notes of Artists’ Materials and Prices 1801
D03777
Turner Bequest LXIII 41a
Ink on white laid paper, 158 x 98 mm
Partial watermark ‘96’
Inscribed by ?J. Brown and ?James Newman in ink with notes, ?further annotated by Turner (see main catalogue entry)
Stamped in black ‘LXIII – 41a’ top right, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbooks foliation, the upper half of the page is inscribed in pen and brown ink:
1801. Jany 11th s d
Bladder Colours – 1’ 9
3 Cakes Colour – 2 -
By return Cake Colour 8/
Bladder Colour – 3/
____________________11___
Febry 23d. 1801. settled & Recd
given ––– On a 4d Stamp
J.N
The first six lines are cancelled with a large ‘X’, perhaps by Turner. The last three lines are in another hand, presumably that of James Newman, whose initials comprise the last line. For the colourman James Newton see under folio 6 recto (D03741), on which page there are further notes of purchases of pigments and brushes in the same hand as the first six lines here, signed ‘[?J.] Brown’; the brief related note inside the back cover opposite (D40808) also seems to be in the latter’s hand.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

Revised by Matthew Imms
April 2015

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Inscription by Another Hand ?and Turner: Notes of Artists’ Materials and Prices 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, revised by Matthew Imms, April 2015, 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-another-hand-and-turner-notes-of-artists-r1178475, accessed 26 April 2024.