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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Perspective lectures c.1809-28 > I. Numbered Perspective Diagrams > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Indications of Transfer Process c.1810

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Indications of Transfer Process’ c.1810
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Indications of Transfer Process circa 1810
D40005
Transfer ink on white wove paper, 657 x 830 mm
Watermarked ‘J RUSE | 1800’
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘99’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These indications of Turner’s transfer process are on the back of Diagram 52 (Tate D17070; Turner Bequest CXCV 100), which illustrates the perspective construction of Ionic capitals by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau and the elder Thomas Malton. For tracings of the Ionic capital made from this diagram, see Tate D17078 and D17071.

Andrea Fredericksen
June 2004

Supported by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Revised by David Blayney Brown
January 2012

How to cite

Andrea Fredericksen, ‘Indications of Transfer Process c.1810 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2004, revised by David Blayney Brown, 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-indications-of-transfer-process-r1136520, accessed 26 April 2024.