'?An Interior', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

?An Interior

From Small Calais Pier Sketchbook

Turner Bequest LXXI

Date 1802

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 112 x 187 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D04266

Turner Bequest LXXI 65

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Second Rear Flyleaf; Recto:

?An Interior 1802

D04266
Turner Bequest LXXI 65

Pencil on white laid paper, 112 x 187 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘65’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXI 65’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Numbered by Finberg (following Ruskin) as folio 65 of this sketchbook, this has since been rebound as the second of two rear flyleaves. Little can be made of the sketch, although it contains indications of figures and of some large expanse of hanging material. The identification as an interior is not certain. A possible subject might be a market, with covered stalls or arcades, perhaps in Calais, one of the towns Turner passed through on his way to Paris or even the capital itself.

David Blayney Brown
April 2003

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