'Lines Ruled for Music', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Lines Ruled for Music

From Tabley No.2 Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CIV

Date 1808

MediumInk on paper

Dimensionssupport: 98 x 162 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D06977

Turner Bequest CIV 85

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 86 Recto:

Lines Ruled for Music 1808

D06977
Turner Bequest CIV 85

Ink on white laid paper, 98 x 162 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘85’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CIV 85’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

For music in this sketchbook, see Introduction and notes to folio 53 verso (D06927; Turner Bequest CIV 52a).

David Blayney Brown
May 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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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sketchbooks

1802-18 Academician and professor

Sketchbooks from the 1800s

Tabley No.2 Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest