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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Notes and Executors' Endorsements c.1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Notes and Executors' Endorsements’ c.1832 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover:
Notes and Executors’ Endorsements c.1832
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Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 206 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘?Forty [...] Land ¦18 Parr E ?Wells’ top left
Inscribed with various executors’ endorsements (see main entry)
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCLXXIX’ top right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIX’ top right, descending vertically
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner’s executor filled the centre of this inside back cover with endorsements. In ink, Henry Scott Trimmer inscribed the page ‘No 385 ¦33 leaves of pencil sketches’ and left his signature. Charles Lock Eastlake and John Prescott Knight wrote their initials in pencil.
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John Chu
March 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Notes and Executors’ Endorsements c.1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-notes-and-executors-endorsements-r1181416, accessed 24 November 2024.