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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Executors' Notes 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Executors' Notes’ 1826 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover:
Executors’ Notes 1826
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Inscribed by Turner’s executors in ink and pencil (see main entry)
Inscribed in pencil ‘FRONT’, ‘CCXLIX’, ‘582’ towards top left
Stamped in black ‘CCXLIX’ top centre
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram towards top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s executor Henry Scott Trimmer endorsed the top of this page with his signature and the note ‘No 266 | 44 sketches in pencil’. His co-executors, John Prescott Knight and Charles Lock Eastlake, left their initials in pencil below.

John Chu
May 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Executors’ Notes 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-executors-notes-r1185082, accessed 23 November 2024.