'Indications of Transfer Process', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Indications of Transfer Process

From I. Numbered Perspective Diagrams

Date c.1810

MediumChalk on paper

Dimensionssupport: 674 x 1006 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D40008

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Indications of Transfer Process circa 1810

D40008

Transfer ink on white wove paper, 674 x 1006 mm
Watermarked ‘J WHATMAN | 1808’
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘108’ bottom left

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

These indications of Turner’s transfer process are on the on back of Diagram 58 (Tate D17083; Turner Bequest CXCV 113). Turner traced the outlines of his drawing of Pulteney Bridge, Bath to make the guiding lines of Diagram 59 (Tate D17084; Turner Bequest CXCV 114).

Andrea Fredericksen
June 2004

Supported by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Revised by David Blayney Brown
January 2010

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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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