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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: Financial Notes c.1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: Financial Notes’ c.1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Recto:
Inscription by Turner: Financial Notes c.1830
D22334
Turner Bequest CCXL 8
Pen and ink on white wove paper, 110 x 68 mm
Partial watermark ‘Gat | 18’
Inscribed by Turner in ink with financial notes (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘8’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXL – 8’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically with the gutter at the top, Turner made the following notes in ink:
Consols pay Jan: & July
      10,625 . 5
The note refers to biannual interest payments on Turner’s long-term consolidated annuity (or ‘consol’) investments. For financial notes on adjacent pages, see under folio 1 recto (D22323).
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Matthew Imms
August 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Inscription by Turner: Financial Notes c.1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, 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-inscription-by-turner-financial-notes-r1148484, accessed 22 November 2024.