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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscriptions by Turner and Others 1808

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscriptions by Turner and Others’ 1808 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover:
Inscriptions by Turner and Others 1808
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Ink and pencil on white wove paper, 185 x 108 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil and ink (see main catalogue entry) and by the Executors of the Turner Bequest
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s writing is in pencil (largely illegible) and ink, the latter reading approximately:
The high rain mill that cheats the traind eye
The bursting spire that cheers our youthful day
Warms in our hearts by recollection plays
and hope ...[with a in further sway inserted]
This version differs slightly from the reading given by Rosalind Mallord Turner in the 1990 Tate catalogue.
The others inscriptions are by the Executors of the Bequest: ‘No 303 Contains 32 Leaves. | Pencil sketches Pen and Ink’; and signed by Henry Scott Trimmer and Charles Turner in ink ‘H.S. Trimmer’ and ‘C. Turner’ and in pencil by Charles Lock Eastlake and John Prescott Knight ‘C.L.E.’ and ‘JPK’
There may also be traces of a pencil sketch of a landscape, not now recognisable.

David Blayney Brown
July 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Inscriptions by Turner and Others 1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-inscriptions-by-turner-and-others-r1129557, accessed 19 May 2024.