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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of an Architectural Detail 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of an Architectural Detail’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 72 Recto:
Study of an Architectural Detail 1819
D15232
Turner Bequest CLXXX 71
Black pen and ink and traces of grey watercolour wash on paper, 161 x 101 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘71’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXX 71’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains a small sketch of an ornamental or architectural detail from a sculpture or building, probably in Rome.
Verso:
Blank, however, the page has been prepared with a grey wash in readiness for further use. Peter Bower has noted that there are eight such leaves bound into this sketchbook, although the only one which has been worked upon is folio 71 verso (D15231, Turner Bequest CLXXX 70a). All the washed pages come from a single sheet of trimmed white wove Whatman paper.1

Nicola Moorby
December 2009

1
Peter Bower, Turner’s Papers: A Study of the Manufacture, Selection and Use of his Drawing Papers 1787–1820, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1990, p.115.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Study of an Architectural Detail 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2009, 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-study-of-an-architectural-detail-r1139644, accessed 27 April 2024.