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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Diagram of a Building 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Diagram of a Building’ 1819 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
Diagram of a Building 1819
D40954
Turner Bequest
Pen and black ink on paper on board, 187 x 120 mm
Inscribed by the artist in black ink on diagram (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed by the Executors of the Turner Bequest in black ink ‘No.280| Contains 90 leaves with Pencil Sketches | on both sides. | H.S. Trimmer | C. Turner’ and initialled in pencil by Charles Lock Eastlake ‘C.L.E.’ and John Prescott Knight, ‘JPK’ bottom right, descending right-hand edge. Also in pencil by unknown hand ‘CLXXXVIII’ bottom right, descending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the inside back cover of the sketchbook which contains a diagrammatic plan of an unknown building. Turner has annotated the drawing with several notations, the details of which suggest that it represents a domestic building. The inscriptions are as follows: along the top, or shortest side of the plan ‘corner | 9 courses of bricks | 8 courses 2 feet’ and ‘[?7 18]’ and ‘63.8’; along the right-hand side ‘10 Feet’ and ‘12 courses from flooring’; and along the left-hand side ‘Chimney’ and ‘51’ and ‘3.6’ and ‘3.2’ and ‘4 feet from floor’.
Verso:
Back cover

Nicola Moorby
January 2009

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Diagram of a Building 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-diagram-of-a-building-r1139839, accessed 19 September 2024.