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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Harbour and Shipping c.1835-40

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Harbour and Shipping’ c.1835-40 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover:
Harbour and Shipping c.1835–40
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Pencil on white wove paper 86 x 111 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCLXXIX (a)’ and ‘S014’ top left
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram, centre
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIX (a)’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This inside cover of the sketchbook bears the endorsements of Turner’s executors. In ink, Henry Scott Trimmer signed the top right-hand corner of the page and inscribed it, ‘No 269 | 57 leaves of | pencil sketches’. Just below, John Prescott Knight and Sir Charles Eastlake left their initials in pencil. The latter also noted ‘56 leaves | 57 counting wrapper’.
The slight studies of shipping featured here are typical of much of this sketchbook’s contents. For more information, see the sketchbook Introduction.
In his 1909 inventory of the Turner Bequest, A.J. Finberg did not give this inside front cover a number.1
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A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.887.
Technical notes:
The glue used to fasten the paper to the binding boards has stained the inside front cover.

John Chu
February 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Harbour and Shipping c.1835–40 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-harbour-and-shipping-r1181504, accessed 20 April 2024.