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

Turner gives two designs for chimneypieces, plus a cross-section of the left pilaster of the upper design. Patrick Youngblood observes and illustrates the close relation between the bottom design and the chimneypiece as executed in the sitting room at Turner’s villa at Twickenham, Sandycombe Lodge, built to the artist’s designs c.1812–13 (see folio 51 verso of this sketchbook, D09128). Given that Turner is evidently thinking about the finishing touches in this sketch, one might surmise that the building work must have been at a reasonably advanced stage, perhaps late 1812 to early 1813.