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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: Notes on French Grammar c.1799

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: Notes on French Grammar’ c.1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
First Flyleaf, Recto:
Inscription by Turner: Notes on French Grammar c.1799
D40767
Ink and pencil on white wove paper, 130 x 79 mm
Inscribed by Turner in brown ink and pencil with extensive notes (see main catalogue entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Just over half the page is taken up with the following notes in pen and brown ink:
Demonstraive Pronons [sic]
Ce . . this M.– Plural these ces
cette this F. . . ces cettes
celui him those les ceux
de celui [?to] him
celle she F –– celles those
ceci this ––– cela that
. [?Relataive] Pronuons [sic]
Qui – who Quoi what
de Q whom
a Q – whose dont whose
Qye [sic] whom or that que what
lequel – which Mas} Dului &
laquelle which F.} Le du au
See also the French grammar notes inside the front cover opposite (D40766) and on the verso (D40768).
A separate pencil note at the bottom of the page, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, reads ‘Moel Eilio | Glydar Fawr’.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Inscription by Turner: Notes on French Grammar c.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-notes-on-french-grammar-r1179848, accessed 25 April 2024.