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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Vale of Heathfield Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Part of an Object or Structure or a Diagram c.1809-16

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Back Cover:
?Part of an Object or Structure or a Diagram circa 1809–16
D41535
Pencil on green paper laid on board sketchbook cover with green leather spine and corners, 189 x 235 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This very slight sketch, towards the bottom left of the cover, is not mentioned in Finberg’s Turner Bequest Inventory.1 It comprises two parallel lines, joined at one end, joined to a further short line in parallel below with a diagonal line leading off it. If not a doodle, it may be part of a building or some other man-made object or feature. There is what appears to be an unrelated diagram on folio 2 verso (D10208; CXXXVII 2a).

Matthew Imms
May 2011

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, pp.392.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?Part of an Object or Structure or a Diagram c.1809–16 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2011, 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-part-of-an-object-or-structure-or-a-diagram-r1131362, accessed 20 April 2024.