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 > Scarborough 1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: Title of Sketchbook c.1816-18

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Back Cover:
Inscription by Turner: Title of Sketchbook c.1816–18
D40706
Ink on tan leather cover, 180 x 117 mm
Inscribed by Turner in ink ‘Scarborough’ bottom centre, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CL.’ bottom left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s inscribed title is inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation.

Matthew Imms
May 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Inscription by Turner: Title of Sketchbook c.1816–18 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2014, 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-inscription-by-turner-title-of-sketchbook-r1146931, accessed 23 November 2024.