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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription 1799

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
First Flyleaf, Recto:
Inscription
D40773
Pen and ink on white wove paper, 150 x 90 mm
Inscribed by Turner in ink ‘W Turner | 64 Harley St’ top centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As Finberg noted,1 this address first appears in the Royal Academy catalogue as Turner’s sending-in address in 1800. The house in Harley Street belonged to the Rev. Mr Hardcastle, and John Thomas Serres (1759–1825), marine draughtsman to the Academy and marine painter to the King, used rooms there as a studio.2
1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.124.
2
A.J. Finberg, The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A. Second Edition, Revised, with a Supplement, by Hilda F. Finberg, revised ed., Oxford 1961, p.65
Technical notes:
The right-hand, outer third of the page has been torn out.
Verso:
Blank; ink offset from folio 1 recto opposite (D02243).

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Inscription by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, 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-inscription-r1174114, accessed 21 November 2024.