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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of ?Scrollwork 1792-3

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of ?Scrollwork’ 1792-3
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Study of ?Scrollwork 1792–3
D40267
Pencil on white wove paper, 243 x 214 mm
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram below left of centre
Inscribed in pencil ‘Recto D00129 verso D40267’ bottom centre
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A slight drawing, not mentioned by Finberg in his 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue entry for the recto (D00129; Turner Bequest XI D).1

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.14.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Study of ?Scrollwork 1792–3 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-study-of-scrollwork-r1141331, accessed 26 April 2024.