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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription: Columns of Figures c.1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription: Columns of Figures’ c.1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Verso:
Inscription: Columns of Figures c.1794
D00271
Turner Bequest XX 9a
Pencil on white laid paper, 152 x 99 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil with figures (see main catalogue entry)
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram top centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The centre of the top two thirds of the page is taken up with columns of figures in pencil:
3  R – 7 
3      6 
2      4 
3      6 
2      4 
2      4 - 
2      4 - 
2      4 
4      8 
2   | 47 
      2 . 7 – 
3     8 
The figures in the last line may have been inscribed on a different occasion. There is a similar list on folio 10 recto opposite (D00272).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Inscription: Columns of Figures c.1794 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-inscription-columns-of-figures-r1140663, accessed 17 July 2024.