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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Executors' Endorsements 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Executors' Endorsements’ 1832 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
Executors’ Endorsements 1832
D40603
Turner Bequest
Pencil and ink on white laid paper attached to binding boards, 127 x 175 mm
Inscribed by Turner’s executors and Ruskin in pencil and ink (see main entry)
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s executors used this page for their endorsements. The top edge of the page has been inscribed in ink with the note ‘No 344 contains 166, Pencil sketches on | both sides’ to establish the volume’s endorsement number, and to indicate the quantity and medium of the drawings it contains. Below this are the ink signature of Charles Turner and the pencil initials of Charles Lock Eastlake and John Prescott Knight. In blue ink, John Ruskin inscribed the right-hand side of the page with the note ‘The leaves are | marked 2. in | my paging for | shortness. Pencil marks at the bottom of the page may depict a cursory landscape view by Turner descending vertically.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Executors’ Endorsements 1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, 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-executors-endorsements-r1175528, accessed 20 January 2025.