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Joseph Mallord William Turner Colour Trials ?1791-2

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Colour Trials’ ?1791-2
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Colour Trials ?1791–2
D40229
Watercolour on white wove paper, 207 x 301 mm
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram centre
Inscribed in pencil ‘XVII | K’ top right, ascending vertically
Inscribed in pencil ‘recto D00186 verso D40229’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Blue and green colour trials, not mentioned by Finberg in his 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue entry for the recto (D00186; Turner Bequest XVII K).1

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.22.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Colour Trials ?1791–2 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-colour-trials-r1140292, accessed 21 November 2024.