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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Diagram 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Diagram’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Recto:
A Diagram 1819
D13923
Turner Bequest CLXXI 34
Pencil on white wove paper, 88 x 114 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘34’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXI 34’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of this diagrammatic sketch is currently unidentified.
Verso:
Blank, except for faint pencil marks

Nicola Moorby
March 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘A Diagram 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-a-diagram-r1138741, accessed 19 September 2024.