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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscriptions by Turner: Numbering and Subject c.1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscriptions by Turner: Numbering and Subject’ c.1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inscriptions by Turner: Numbering and Subject c.1833
D40110
Gouache and pencil on blue paper, 143 x 194 mm
Inscribed by Turner in red gouache ‘5’ top left and ‘Beaupiare and Route’ above centre, and in pencil ‘5’ towards top left
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCLIX.114’ and ‘b’ at centre, and ‘14’ towards bottom centre
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram over ‘CCLIX – 114’ below centre
This is the verso of View on the Seine between Mantes and Vernon (Rolleboise on the Road from Bonnieres), a Wanderings by the Seine subject (D24679; Turner Bequest CCLIX 114). Turner’s gouache inscriptions on the backs of the series are not recorded in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory.1 ‘Beaupiare’ is likely to be his mistaken recollection of the name Bonnières.
Technical notes
There is staining at the bottom left, and there are slight pencil marks towards the bottom right.

Caroline South
November 2017

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.795.

How to cite

Caroline South, ‘Inscriptions by Turner: Numbering and Subject c.1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-inscriptions-by-turner-numbering-and-subject-r1195815, accessed 25 April 2024.