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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of a Sketch of a View from an Arched Window c.1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of a Sketch of a View from an Arched Window’ c.1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Verso:
Part of a Sketch of a View from an Arched Window circa 1819
D13936
Turner Bequest CLXXII 2 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 99 x 155 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains the top half of a sketch of an unidentified view from an arched window. Turner appears to have included a detail of ornamental decoration on the upper section of the interior above the window. The sketch continues on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 3 (D13937).

Nicola Moorby
July 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Part of a Sketch of a View from an Arched Window c.1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2008, 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-part-of-a-sketch-of-a-view-from-an-arched-window-r1138757, accessed 19 April 2024.