'Alternative Prospects of and an Elevation Design for Sandycombe Lodge, Twickenham', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Alternative Prospects of and an Elevation Design for Sandycombe Lodge, Twickenham

From Sandycombe and Yorkshire Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CXXVII

Date c.1809-11

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 126 x 202 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D08985

Turner Bequest CXXVII 15

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Alternative Prospects of and an Elevation Design for Sandycombe Lodge, Twickenham circa 1809–11

D08985
Turner Bequest CXXVII 15

Pencil on white wove paper, 126 x 202 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘15’ top left, upside down (now very faint)
Stamped in black ‘CXXVII 15’ top left, upside down

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Exhibition history

References

This is one of numerous pages in this sketchbook relating to Turner’s self-designed Twickenham house, Sandycombe Lodge (see the Introduction to the sketchbook). As noted under D08966 (CXXVII 2), most of the designs in the book show variations on the central block of the house more or less as built, with variations in the lower flanking wings.1

See Youngblood 1982, pp.29, and 35 notes 78–82; see also Warrell and Perkins 1988, p.24.

Technical notes:

This page is a face of one of the loose bifolio sheets which form the majority of the so-called Sandycombe and Yorkshire sketchbook, along with a few single leaves. The sheets were not bound, but folded inside each other in a sequence which is not entirely recoverable (see the sketchbook’s Introduction for a suggested order). When unfolded, this page is continuous with the verso of D08986 (CXXVII 16); the measurements given above are for the present work alone.

Verso:

Blank

Matthew Imms
January 2012

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