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

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 1 Recto:

A Group of Men 1798

D01676
Turner Bequest XLII 1

Pen and brown ink on buff laid paper on buff laid paper, 174 x 125 mm
Endorsed by the Executors of the Turner Bequest, Henry Scott Trimmer, Charles Turner, John Prescott Knight and Charles Lock Eastlake in ink ‘N^o 289 [altered from ‘288’] Contains 60 leaves | with Pencil Chalk & Colord Sketches | on Tinted Paper – H S Trimmer | C Turner’ and in pencil ‘288. JPK’ and ‘C.L.E.’ at bottom, upside down
Inscribed in pencil ‘XLII’ bottom left, upside down
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘1’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘XLII – 1’ top left, upside down

 

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856