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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Colour Trials; a Loop 1794

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Colour Trials; a Loop’ 1794 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover:
Colour Trials; a Loop 1794
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Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
Inscribed by Turner with list of place names (see main catalogue entry) towards top left
Stamped in black ‘XIX’ top left
Inscribed by Arthur Mayger Hind in pencil ‘Leaf 27 missing | AMH 1934’ centre right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Towards the top left, partly obscured by the colour trials, is the following list in pencil:
Peterborough    1 
Chester         2 
Ely       –     3 
Matlock         4 
Bridgnorth      5 
Parkgate        6 
Birmingham      7 
These are possibly subjects projected for watercolours to be engraved for the Copper-Plate Magazine. There is also a slight pencil sketch of a loop in the shape of a figure ‘8’ at the centre left. For A.M. Hind’s inscription and the fate of Finberg’s ‘XIX 27’ and ‘27a’ see the introduction to the sketchbook.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Colour Trials; a Loop 1794 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-colour-trials-a-loop-r1140723, accessed 25 April 2024.