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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Thames, London and South of England 1821 ... > Mortlake and Pulborough Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Blank c.1825

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Blank
D18732
Turner Bequest CCXIII 15
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘15’ bottom right (now faint)
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘[9]82’ bottom left
Stamped in black ‘CCXIII – 15’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Technical notes:
The leaf has been removed from the sketchbook and reattached. The loose pencil marks towards the top and bottom of the gutter relate to this process; such marks often occur on the backs of double-page spreads extracted for display in the nineteenth century, but there appears to be no record of such an event in this case, which would have involved the drawing on the verso and folio 16 recto (D18733–D18734). The ink number at the bottom left has been partly obscured, but is presumably ‘982’ in sequence with the ‘983’ inscribed on the back of folio 11 recto (D18725) and ‘981’ on the verso of D18734.

Matthew Imms
December 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Blank by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-blank-r1172854, accessed 21 November 2024.