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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: A Name and Place Names ?1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: A Name and Place Names’ ?1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inscription by Turner: A Name and Place Names ?1794
D40254
Pencil on white wove paper, 210 x 275 mm
Watermark ‘J WHATMAN’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Mr Harris | Wolverhampon [sic] | Salisbury | Keswick | Cambridge | Malsbury [sic] | Peterborough | [?Abingdon]’
Stamped in black ink with Turner Bequest monogram right of centre
Inscribed in pencil ‘XXXVI O’ top right, ascending vertically
For more on this list, see the entry for the recto (D01109; Turner Bequest XXXVI O). The manuscript is close in character to that on the verso of the much later view of Folly Bridge, Oxford (Tate D40194, verso; Turner Bequest L S[verso]).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Inscription by Turner: A Name and Place Names ?1794 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-inscription-by-turner-a-name-and-place-names-r1140303, accessed 21 November 2024.