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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscriptions by Turner: Numbering and Subject c.1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscriptions by Turner: Numbering and Subject’ c.1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inscriptions by Turner: Numbering and Subject c.1833
D40126
Gouache and pencil on blue paper, 140 x 191 mm
Inscribed by Turner in red gouache ‘6’ top left and and ‘St Cloud from Sieve’ above centre, and in pencil ‘12’ below the first number
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCLIX . 124’ at centre, and ‘11a’ towards bottom right
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram above ‘CCLIX – 124’ below centre
This is the verso of Bridge of St-Cloud from Sèvres, a Wanderings by the Seine subject (D24689; Turner Bequest CCLIX 124). Turner’s gouache inscriptions on the backs of the series are not recorded in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory.1
Technical notes
There is a smeared mark in the same red gouache used for the inscription left of centre, and some further staining of black gouache at the left edge and centre, with brownish streaks towards the right edge.

Caroline South
November 2017

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.796.

How to cite

Caroline South, ‘Inscriptions by Turner: Numbering and Subject c.1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-inscriptions-by-turner-numbering-and-subject-r1195830, accessed 30 June 2024.