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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Blank c.1829-30

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Recto:
Blank
D22566
Turner Bequest CCXLII 8
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘8’ bottom right (now very faint)
Stamped in black ‘CCXLII – 8’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Technical notes:
At the centre of the sketchbook, the folded sheet forming this leaf and folio 9 (D22567) is of a heavy cream paper, rather than the white laid paper of the other pages. There is some offsetting from folio 7 verso opposite (D22565), and possibly pencil test marks at the top left.
Verso:
Blank

Matthew Imms
May 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Blank 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-blank-r1148342, accessed 23 November 2024.