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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country and Yorkshire 1814-17 > Devon Rivers, No.2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Architectural Details, Perhaps at Farnley Hall ?1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Architectural Details, Perhaps at Farnley Hall’ ?1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 83 Verso:
Architectural Details, Perhaps at Farnley Hall ?1814
D40820
Pencil on white wove paper, fragment (made good to full extent of leaf) 178 x 110 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The fragment has been set into a new, blank leaf. It appears to record carved ‘linenfold’ panelling and an ogee moulding, and may relate to further architectural details on the opposite page. As with other such details from folio 74 verso (D09770) onwards they may relate to Farnley Hall, or another of Walter Fawkes’s Yorkshire properties as seen at the beginning of the sketchbook from folio 4 verso onwards (D09673); see under D09770 for further discussion.
Whether the sheet was torn away irregularly to dispose of the inscription on the recto (Tate D40819) while retaining the drawing here, or the drawing was made on the stub after it had been torn, is unclear.

Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Architectural Details, Perhaps at Farnley Hall ?1814 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-architectural-details-perhaps-at-farnley-hall-r1147335, accessed 27 April 2024.