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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription ?by Turner 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription ?by Turner’ 1835 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Front Cover Endpaper:
Inscription ?by Turner 1835
D41035
Pencil on cream wove paper decorated with printed design, 155 x 92 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘1080’ top centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The number ‘1080’ is inscribed in pencil at top centre of the endpaper. It may or may not be Turner’s hand.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Inscription ?by Turner 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-inscription-by-turner-r1187199, accessed 26 July 2026.