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
D40006
Transfer ink on wove paper, 659 x 837 mm
Watermarked ‘J. RUSE | 1800’
Inscribed by unknown hand in pencil ‘102’ 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 55 (Tate D17076; Turner Bequest CXCV 106). Turner traced the drawing to make the guiding lines of Diagram 56 (Tate D17079; Turner Bequest CXCV 109) representing a Tuscan entablature in perspective, as well as those of a diagram left unfinished (Tate D17077).

Andrea Fredericksen
June 2004

Supported by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Revised by David Blayney Brown
January 2010

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 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-indications-of-transfer-process-r1136525, accessed 22 September 2024.