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"J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings, Watercolours aims to provide a comprehensive revision and updating of A.J. Finberg’s A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest (London 1909). At the same time, it incorporates additional works on paper by Turner that have been acquired by Tate through purchase or gift to supplement the Bequest itself with works, such as finished watercolours, that were under-represented in what was, at the artist’s death, primarily a studio repository. It draws on more than a century of scholarship and research and addresses this extraordinary collection and its critical legacy in detail. Work on the project is ongoing, and new entries and supporting texts will be added as they are completed."--Project overview.