'?A Moulding', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

?A Moulding

From Oxford Sketchbook

Turner Bequest II

Date c.1789

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 160 x 249 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D40742

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Inside Back Cover:

?A Moulding c.1789

D40742

Pencil on white laid paper overlapped by marbled paper folded over from back cover, 160 x 249 mm
Stamped in black ‘II’ towards top right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

A slight sketch, not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue.1

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

1

See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, pp.3–4.

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.

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