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

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Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Indications of Transfer Process

From I. Numbered Perspective Diagrams

Date c.1810

Dimensionssupport: 590 x 724 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D40015

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Indications of Transfer Process circa 1810

D40015

Transfer ink on white wove paper, 590 x 724 mm
Watermarked ‘1801 | J WHATMAN’
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘165’ bottom left

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

These indications of Turner’s transfer process occur on the back of Diagram 8/3 (Tate D17142; Turner Bequest CXCV 171). They suggest that Turner traced the outlines of an Athenian stoa or portico in order to make the guiding lines of Diagram 8/2 (Tate D17141; Turner Bequest CXCV 170) and a tracing left incomplete (Tate D17132).

Andrea Fredericksen
June 2004

Supported by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Revised by David Blayney Brown
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.

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