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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Second Italian Tour 1828-9 > Lyons to Marseilles Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Building and Mountains 1828

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Building and Mountains’ 1828 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Inside Front Cover:
TEST 03 03 Building and Mountains 1828
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Pencil on cream lined wove paper, 145 x 111 mm
Inscribed in ink and pencil by later hands (see main catalogue entry)
Stamped in black ‘CCXXX’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the top, inverted and partially obscured by the Executors’ endorsement, is Turner’s slight pencil study of a building and a mountain profile, the location of which is unclear.
Written in ink at the top of the page is the customary endorsement by the Executors of the Turner Bequest. It includes signatures by Charles Turner and Henry Scott Trimmer: ‘No 186 This Book contains | 68 leaves with Pencil drawing | on both sides – | H.S. Trimmer | C Turner’. In pencil beneath are the initials of the two assessors, John Prescott Knight and Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, which appear as ‘JPK’ and ‘C.L.E.’
Towards the top left, over the ‘186’, is a pencil ‘8’. This is presumably a clarification added at the point of signing off, to confirm that the original schedule number of the sketchbook is ‘186’ rather than the ‘156’ it might be read as, although the pencil figure is hardly better formed.

Hannah Kaspar
March 2024

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘TEST 03 03 Building and Mountains 1828’, catalogue entry, March 2024, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2025, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/test-03-03-building-and-mountains-r1209650, accessed 17 April 2025.