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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Interior of a Building c.1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Interior of a Building’ c.1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Verso:
Interior of a Building circa 1819
D13973
Turner Bequest CLXXII 22 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 99 x 155 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The rough, schematic nature of this drawing makes the subject uncertain but it appears to be a sketch of an interior, possibly with two figures in the bottom right-hand corner. It may predate the artist’s use of the sketchbook as a notebook relating to his Italian travels in the autumn of 1819.

Nicola Moorby
July 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Interior of a Building 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-interior-of-a-building-r1138794, accessed 25 April 2024.