'Notes on Reflection and Refraction, for Perspective Lectures (Inscriptions by Turner)', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Notes on Reflection and Refraction, for Perspective Lectures (Inscriptions by Turner)

From Greenwich Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CII

Date c.1808

MediumInk on paper

Dimensionssupport: 76 x 115 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D06758

Turner Bequest CII 20

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 20 Recto:

Notes on Reflection and Refraction, for Perspective Lectures (Inscriptions by Turner) circa 1808

D06758
Turner Bequest CII 20

Inscribed by Turner in ink (see main catalogue entry) on white wove paper, 76 x 115 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘20’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CII 20’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

For Turner’s inscription see note to folio 15 (D06749).

David Blayney Brown
March 2007

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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

Greenwich Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest