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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: List of Weekdays; the Capitoline Hill, Rome 1828-9

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: List of Weekdays; the Capitoline Hill, Rome’ 1828-9
Folio 9 Verso:
Inscription by Turner: List of Weekdays; the Capitoline Hill, Rome 1828–9
D14848
Turner Bequest CLXXVIII 9a
Pencil on white laid paper, 132 x 97 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner with various words (see main catalogue entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In the lower section of this page, executed with the sketchbook turned vertically, are two rough profiles of central Rome, identified in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory of the Bequest as the Capitoline Hill.1 Turner used the upper half of the page to note down weekdays in Italian, some of which are linked to numbers, perhaps concerning his expenditure:
Lunedi –––– 30
Martedi ––– –
Mercoldi [sic] – 40
Giovedi –– 20
Venerdi –– [...]
This list is partly overwritten with a further inscription, partly illegible and upside down, which appears to read ‘Sale of Fl[...]’.

Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

1
Finberg 1909, I, p.524.

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘Inscription by Turner: List of Weekdays; the Capitoline Hill, Rome 1828–9’, catalogue entry, November 2024, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2025, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/inscription-by-turner-list-of-weekdays-the-capitoline-hill-rome-r1210222, accessed 15 April 2025.