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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Farnley Hall and Yorkshire c.1808-24 > Large Farnley Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Touches of Watercolour c.1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Verso:
Touches of Watercolour c.1816
D09017
Turner Bequest CXXVIII 1
Watercolour on white wove paper, 285 x 460 mm
Inscribed by an unknown hand in ink with the Turner Bequest Schedule number ‘67’ top left
Inscribed by the Turner Bequest Executors John Prescott Knight ‘JPK’ and Charles Lock Eastlake ‘C.L.E.’ top left
Stamped in black ‘CXXVIII 1’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This folio is made of a much heavier paper than those following. It has been badly torn at the left and subsequently repaired and bound into the book reversed, with the Turner Bequest stamp now presented on the verso, here (the other side, currently bound as the recto, is blank). This is no doubt correct, since splashes of watercolour appear to the right, and have clearly spread from a sheet formerly opposite but now removed. This sheet was probably the original inside front cover, and the light greyish stain that appears on both sides was perhaps caused by the paste with which it was affixed.

David Hill
October 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Touches of Watercolour c.1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-touches-of-watercolour-r1146736, accessed 23 November 2024.