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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscriptions 1821

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscriptions’ 1821
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Verso:
Inscriptions 1821
D18541
Turner Bequest CCXI 10v
Pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘14 15 H – I think P- [?]P[...] | I[...] Informed 14½ 9½ | Normandy W’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The inscription may refer to a set of lithographs of Normandy entitled, Voyage pittoresques et romantiques dans l’ancienne France, the first plates of which were published by Isadore Taylor and Charles Nodier in 1820. See also the inscription ‘Normandy French Work’ on folio 20 (Tate D18555; Turner Bequest CCXI 20).1

Thomas Ardill
March 2013

1
See Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, pp.16, 206 note 15.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Inscriptions 1821 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-inscriptions-r1146237, accessed 20 May 2024.