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Joseph Mallord William Turner An Arched Ruin and Foliage ?1792

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘An Arched Ruin and Foliage’ ?1792
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
An Arched Ruin and Foliage ?1792
D40244
Pencil on white wove paper, 380 x 279 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘XXIII | Z’ towards top right, ascending vertically
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This very broad, slight sketch, not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue,1 was presumably made about the time of the drawing on the recto (D00400; Turner Bequest XXIII Z).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.40.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘An Arched Ruin and Foliage ?1792 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-an-arched-ruin-and-foliage-r1141156, accessed 23 April 2024.