J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Lecture Diagram 66: Interior of a Prison (after Giovanni Battista Piranesi) c.1810

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lecture Diagram 66: Interior of a Prison (after Giovanni Battista Piranesi)’ c.1810
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Lecture Diagram 66: Interior of a Prison (after Giovanni Battista Piranesi) circa 1810
D17091
Turner Bequest CXCV 121
Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on white wove paper, 443 x 595 mm
Inscribed by Turner in red watercolour ‘66’ (cut and pasted to top left)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Prepared by Turner for his lectures as Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy, Diagram 66 is one of three views of a prison interior based on an etching from Prima Parte de Architettura e Prospettiva (1743, pl.2) by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778). See note to Diagram 65 (Tate D17090; Turner Bequest CXCV 120) for their likely connection with illustrations of the production of shadows and with a lecture manuscript, and Tate D17123, D17124, D17072; Turner Bequest CXCV 152, 153, 102) for other
references to Piranesi among the lecture diagrams.
Technical notes:
The diagram has been cut down and the number pasted to the top left corner.
Verso:
Currently laid down.

Andrea Fredericksen
June 2004

Supported by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Revised by David Blayney Brown
January 2012

How to cite

Andrea Fredericksen, ‘Lecture Diagram 66: Interior of a Prison (after Giovanni Battista Piranesi) c.1810 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2004, revised by David Blayney Brown, January 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-lecture-diagram-66-interior-of-a-prison-after-giovanni-r1136536, accessed 25 April 2024.