Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Notes and Executors’ Endorsements c.1832
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 206 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘?Forty [...] Land ¦18 Parr E ?Wells’ top left
Inscribed with various executors’ endorsements (see main entry)
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCLXXIX’ top right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIX’ top right, descending vertically
References
1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.885.
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner’s executor filled the centre of this inside back cover with endorsements. In ink, Henry Scott Trimmer inscribed the page ‘No 385 ¦33 leaves of pencil sketches’ and left his signature. Charles Lock Eastlake and John Prescott Knight wrote their initials in pencil.
How to cite
John Chu, ‘Notes and Executors’ Endorsements c.1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-notes-and-executors-endorsements-r1181416, accessed 04 July 2026.
