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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Venice, Austria and Southern Germany ... > Trieste, Graz and Danube Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Blank 1840

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Blank’ 1840 (Blank right-hand page of sketchbook)
Blank right-hand page of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Recto:
Blank
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Turner Bequest CCXCIX 6
Partial watermark ‘atman’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘6’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCIX – 6’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Technical notes:
For a discussion of the spurious Whatman watermarks seen here and elsewhere in the sketchbook, see the overall technical notes in its Introduction.1

Matthew Imms
September 2018

1
See also Bower 1999, pp.74–6.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Blank by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2018, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-blank-r1196862, accessed 17 July 2024.