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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Blank c.1830-41

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Blank’ c.1830-41
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Blank
D34858
Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 370
Pencil on off-white laid paper, 165 x 400 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘370’ bottom-right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXLIV 370’ bottom-right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This side of the page (treated here as the recto following Ruskin’s inscription and Finberg’s stamp) is blank, although in his inventory Finberg mixed up the back and front. There is a sketch on the reverse (see D40396).

Thomas Ardill
May 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Blank by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2010, 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-blank-r1135613, accessed 22 November 2024.