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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sandycombe Lodge, Twickenham: An Unexecuted Elevation and Plan c.1809-11

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sandycombe Lodge, Twickenham: An Unexecuted Elevation and Plan’ c.1809-11
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 78 Recto:
Sandycombe Lodge, Twickenham: An Unexecuted Elevation and Plan circa 1809–11
D08066
Turner Bequest CXIV 78
Pen and ink on white wove paper, 87 x 117 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil and ink (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘78’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CXIV – 78’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The page includes the following inscriptions; at the top left in pencil:
40     16 
        8 
      128 
At the top centre and right in ink:
40 feet long      20 feet high West side 
20 Broad          30 feet high East side 
And at the centre right in pencil:
 100 
  80 
 8000  1
This is one of a series of sketches relating to Sandycombe Lodge, Turner’s self-designed Twickenham house (see the Introduction to the sketchbook),2 occupying most of the pages between folio 73 verso (D08057) and folio 86 verso (D08083), and apparently made working inwards from the back of the book. Here the east (garden) elevation is shown with a wide balcony; there is also a rudimentary plan.

Matthew Imms
January 2012

1
This section transcribed in Hamilton 1998, p.28.
2
See also Warrell and Perkins 1988, p.24.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Sandycombe Lodge, Twickenham: An Unexecuted Elevation and Plan c.1809–11 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, 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-sandycombe-lodge-twickenham-an-unexecuted-elevation-and-plan-r1134845, accessed 24 April 2024.