Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Executors’ Inscriptions c.1856
D10868
Turner Bequest CXLIV 1
Pen and ink and pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm
Trace of inscription in red ink, possibly by John Ruskin, ‘1’ bottom right
Very faint trace of an inscription in red ink, possibly by John Ruskin, ‘1’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CXLIV 1’ bottom right
Inscribed by Henry Scott Trimmer in ink ‘No 261 – | 78 leaves of pencil sketches | H. S. Trimmer’ and initialled in pencil by Charles Lock Eastlake ‘C.L.E.’ and John Prescott Knight ‘JPK’
Inscribed in pencil ‘CXLIV’
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856