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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of the Augustan Arch at Susa 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of the Augustan Arch at Susa’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 55 Recto:
Two Sketches of the Augustan Arch at Susa 1836
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Turner Bequest CCXCIV 54
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Watermarked ‘Fratelli’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘54’ top left, running vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 54’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches:
i. (top) The Augustan arch at Susa, with the church beyond to the right.
ii. (bottom, inverted in relation to sketch i.) The Augustan Arch at Susa, but a closer view than (i) with the church to the left

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches of the Augustan Arch at Susa 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-sketches-of-the-augustan-arch-at-susa-r1144862, accessed 25 April 2024.