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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1813 > Chemistry and Apuleia Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Blank c.1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
Blank
D09913
Turner Bequest CXXXV 16
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘16’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXV – 16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Technical notes:
The outer half of the sheet is missing, and may have been so when Turner acquired the sketchbook or at least by the time he came to use its verso (D09914) and folio 15 verso opposite (D09912), which have a single sketch running across them. Ruskin’s number and the stamped Turner Bequest number are at the torn corner of the sheet, but in bracketing the versos ‘15a’ and ‘16a’ together without explanation as a single drawing, Finberg omitted to list the present recto in the Inventory.1

Matthew Imms
April 2014

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.385.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Blank by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-blank-r1147868, accessed 22 November 2024.