'Tracing of an Elevation of a Stoa or Portico', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Tracing of an Elevation of a Stoa or Portico

From V. Miscellaneous Preparatory Perspective Material

Date c.1810

MediumTracing on paper

Dimensionssupport: 550 x 762 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D17132

Turner Bequest CXCV 161

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Tracing of an Elevation of a Stoa or Portico circa 1810

D17132
Turner Bequest CXCV 161

Transfer ink on white wove paper, 550 x 762 mm
Watermarked ‘J WHATMAN | 1801’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘161’ bottom left

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

This incomplete tracing was made from Diagram 8/3 (Tate D17142; Turner Bequest CXCV 171), a side elevation of a stoa or portico after James Stuart, used during Turner’s lectures as Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy. For a related but faint outline of the subject see Tate D17118; Turner Bequest CXCV 147.

Technical notes:

Peter Bower (unpublished notes)1 states that the sheet is Small Imperial size Whatman made by William Balston and Finch and Thomas Robert Hollingworth at Turkey Mill, Maidstone, Kent.

Notes in Tate catalogue files.

Verso:

Blank, save for an inscription by an unknown hand in pencil ‘155’ top right.

Andrea Fredericksen
June 2004

Supported by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Revised by David Blayney Brown
January 2012

Read this catalogue entry in full

This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.