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

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

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
D40125
Gouache and pencil on blue paper, 141 x 193 mm
Inscribed by Turner in white gouache ‘18’ top left and ‘Pont St Cloud and Pont Sieve | Bois de Bologne and Paris’ above centre, and in pencil ‘10’ below the first number
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCLXX . 123’ at centre, and ’11 b’ towards bottom right
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram over ‘CCLIX – 123’ below centre
This is the verso of Bridges of St-Cloud and Sèvres, a Wanderings by the Seine subject (D24688; Turner Bequest CCLIX 123). Turner’s gouache inscriptions on the backs of the series are not recorded in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory.1

Caroline South
November 2017

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.796.

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-r1195828, accessed 20 April 2024.