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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tracing of a Perspective Construction of an Ionic Capital c.1810

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tracing of a Perspective Construction of an Ionic Capital’ c.1810
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Tracing of a Perspective Construction of an Ionic Capital circa 1810
D17071
Turner Bequest CXCV 101
Transfer ink on white wove paper, 660 x 834 mm
Watermarked ‘J. RUSE | 1800’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘101’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This tracing of an Ionic capital was made from the bottom right portion of Diagram 52 (Tate D17070; Turner Bequest CXCV 100; see also Tate D40005) used during Turner’s lectures as Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy. There is a watercolour of the same Ionic capital also based on a tracing (Tate D17078; Turner Bequest CXCV 108).
Technical notes:
Peter Bower (unpublished notes)1 states that the sheet is Pott Quad size paper made by Joseph Ruse, Upper Tovil Mill, Maidstone, Kent.
1
Notes in Tate catalogue files.
Verso:
Blank, save for an inscription by an unknown hand in pencil ‘99a’ bottom left.

Andrea Fredericksen
June 2004

Supported by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Revised by David Blayney Brown
January 2012

How to cite

Andrea Fredericksen, ‘Tracing of a Perspective Construction of an Ionic Capital 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-tracing-of-a-perspective-construction-of-an-ionic-capital-r1136814, accessed 26 April 2024.