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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscriptions and Sketches of a Town 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscriptions and Sketches of a Town’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Inscriptions and Sketches of a Town 1833
D29842
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 15
Pencil on cream wove paper, 165 x 110 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[...] [?fasse] Kh[...]’ | ‘[...] N[...]’ | ‘[...]’ | ‘E[...] [...]’ | ‘E[...] G[...] H[...]’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘15’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVIII 15’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned upside down relative to the foliation, a series of illegible inscriptions are written across the page. A distant prospect of a city is possibly depicted at centre, orientated inversely to the inscriptions and in accordance with the foliation. Part of a view of Heidelberg extended from the folio opposite (Tate D29841; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 14a) is visible at bottom right.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Inscriptions and Sketches of a Town 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-inscriptions-and-sketches-of-a-town-r1203102, accessed 19 May 2024.