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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscriptions by Turner: Numbering and Subject c.1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscriptions by Turner: Numbering and Subject’ c.1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inscriptions by Turner: Numbering and Subject c.1833
D40123
Watercolour and pencil on blue paper, 142 x 193 mm
Inscribed by Turner in black watercolour ‘11’ (converted from ‘12’) top left and ‘Medun’ towards top left, and in pencil ‘7’ below the first number
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCLIX . 116’ at centre and ‘7b’ towards bottom right
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram over ‘CCLIX – 116’ below centre
This is the verso of The Bridge of Meulan, a Wanderings by the Seine subject (D24681; Turner Bequest CCLIX 116). Turner’s inscriptions on the backs of the series (often in gouache) are not recorded in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory.1

Caroline South
November 2017

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.795.

How to cite

Caroline South, ‘Inscriptions by Turner: Numbering and Subject c.1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-inscriptions-by-turner-numbering-and-subject-r1195819, accessed 22 November 2024.