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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Perspective Drawing of a Classical Stoa or Portico c.1810-28

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Perspective Drawing of a Classical Stoa or Portico’ c.1810-28
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Perspective Drawing of a Classical Stoa or Portico circa 1810–28
D17118
Turner Bequest CXCV 147
Pencil on white wove paper, 640 x 978 mm
Watermarked ‘J Whatman | 1794’
Pin-holes at corners
Large piece missing from the left-hand side towards the top corner
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘147’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This faint outline of a classical stoa or portico in perspective was made in preparation for Turner’s lectures as Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy. See also Tate D17132; Turner Bequest CXCV 161, and for a more finished, numbered diagram of a stoa, after James Stuart, Tate D17142; Turner Bequest CXCV 171.
Technical notes:
Peter Bower (unpublished notes)1 writes that the sheet is Double Elephant size Whatman paper made by William Balston and Finch and Thomas Robert Hollingworth, at Turkey Mill, Maidstone, Kent.
1
Notes in Tate catalogue files.
Verso:
Blank

Andrea Fredericksen
June 2004

Supported by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Revised by David Blayney Brown
January 2012

How to cite

Andrea Fredericksen, ‘Perspective Drawing of a Classical Stoa or Portico c.1810–28 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-perspective-drawing-of-a-classical-stoa-or-portico-r1136810, accessed 23 April 2024.