Joseph Mallord William TurnerIndications of Transfer Process c.1810

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Artist
Title
Indications of Transfer Process
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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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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