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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Details from a Bas-Relief, ?Rome 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Details from a Bas-Relief, ?Rome’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 50 Verso:
Details from a Bas-Relief, ?Rome 1819
D16472
Turner Bequest CXC 56 v
Pencil and traces of grey watercolour on white wove paper, 130 x 255 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?pactes] top right
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘776’ top right, inverted and by unknown hands in pencil ‘CXC 53’ top right, inverted and ‘776’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of this rough sketch has not yet been identified although it appears to represent details from a bas-relief. Further studies of a similar decorative frieze can be found on folios 1 and 24 verso (D16399 and D16423; Turner Bequest CXC 5 and 21).

Nicola Moorby
June 2009

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Details from a Bas-Relief, ?Rome 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2009, 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-details-from-a-bas-relief-rome-r1132562, accessed 26 April 2024.