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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1811 > Somerset and North Devon Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Blank c.1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Blank’ c.1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Blank
D08946
Turner Bequest CXXVI 1
Watermark ‘J Whatman | 1801’
Inscribed by Turner’s executors Henry Scott Trimmer, Charles Turner, Sir Charles Lock Eastlake and John Prescott Knight in ink ‘No 137 | H.S. Trimmer | C Turner’ top centre, and in pencil ‘C.L.E.’ and JPK’ immediately below
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘1’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXVI 1’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The page is blank apart from the executors’ endorsement which, unusually, Finberg does not mention or transcribe in his Inventory.
Technical notes:
There are five sets of stitch holes near the left-hand edge. There is a small piece missing at the bottom right corner, matching similar losses to adjacently numbered leaves (D08947–D08951, D40294, D40295; CXXVI 2–5a) and to D08964 (CXXVI 18).
Verso:
Blank. There are dark marks, possibly offsetting, at the top left. There are similar marks on D08949 (CXXVI 4).

Matthew Imms
January 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Blank by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2011, 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-r1137540, accessed 21 November 2024.