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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Building Dimensions (Inscriptions by Turner) c.1808-25

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Building Dimensions (Inscriptions by Turner)’ c.1808-25
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 91 Recto:
Building Dimensions (Inscriptions by Turner) circa 1808–25
D07111
Turner Bequest CV 81
Inscribed by Turner in pencil (see main catalogue entry) on white wove paper, 185 x 108 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The dimensions are as follows:
Parlour          3 5 ¼ Long 
                 3 3     high 
Ki[tchen]        3 1     high 
                 3 3     Long 
K slab           4 –     Long 
                   11    inches Broad 
G slab             18    Broad 
                 3 ft    long 
Garrett          3       high 
                 2 6     Broad 
These must be specifications for some building project; the sizes are modest, suggesting they may not relate to Turner’s house in Queen Anne Street West despite the occurrence of drawings for the gallery elsewhere in the sketchbook (see Introduction).

David Blayney Brown
June 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Building Dimensions (Inscriptions by Turner) c.1808–25 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, 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-building-dimensions-inscriptions-by-turner-r1134646, accessed 23 September 2024.