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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Small Calais Pier Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?An Interior 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?An Interior’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Second Rear Flyleaf; Recto:
?An Interior 1802
D04266
Turner Bequest LXXI 65
Pencil on white laid paper, 112 x 187 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘65’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXI 65’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Numbered by Finberg (following Ruskin) as folio 65 of this sketchbook, this has since been rebound as the second of two rear flyleaves. Little can be made of the sketch, although it contains indications of figures and of some large expanse of hanging material. The identification as an interior is not certain. A possible subject might be a market, with covered stalls or arcades, perhaps in Calais, one of the towns Turner passed through on his way to Paris or even the capital itself.

David Blayney Brown
April 2003

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?An Interior 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2003, 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-an-interior-r1133829, accessed 20 September 2024.