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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: Draft of a Speech or Letter ?1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: Draft of a Speech or Letter’ ?1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Inscription by Turner: Draft of a Speech or Letter ?1801
D05075
Pencil on white laid paper 256 x 161 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil with extensive text (see main catalogue entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the top half of this page is taken up with the following notes in pencil:
How far we may be [?able]
to a [?separable] in matters of [?St]
be [?our] are no [?arg[u]ments concepts]
to [?aquaint yourself] altho it will [?be]
our [?object] to [?anticipate] it – [?even]
[?artist] the [?Expectations] of those
who – Honor our exertion with [?their]
[?‘countenance’ or ‘continuance’]
This is a continuation of the notes for a speech or a letter partly drafted inside the front cover (D40795), where the wording of the second paragraph is similar.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Inscription by Turner: Draft of a Speech or Letter ?1801 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-draft-of-a-speech-or-letter-r1178642, accessed 25 April 2024.