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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Venice, Austria and Southern Germany ... > Venice and Botzen Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Blank 1840

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Blank’ 1840 (Blank right-hand page of sketchbook)
Blank right-hand page of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 70 Recto:
Blank
D31927
Turner Bequest CCCXIII 70
Partial watermark ‘tman’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘70’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXIII – 70’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Technical notes:
There is some scattered staining towards the top and the top right.
The five leaves at the back of this sketchbook were apparently detached by accident or design at some stage; folios 66 and 67 (Tate D31920–D31923) are now secured to stubs formed by a narrow folded strip of modern paper, while folios 68, 69 and 70 (D31924–D31928) have been attached and reinforced at the gutter with thin Japanese-type conservation paper.

Matthew Imms
September 2018

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Blank by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2018, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-blank-r1196822, accessed 26 April 2024.