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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Studies of Helmets and a Mace for the Title Page of 'Views in Sussex' c.1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Studies of Helmets and a Mace for the Title Page of 'Views in Sussex'’ c.1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Verso:
Studies of Helmets and a Mace for the Title Page of ‘Views in Sussex’ c.1819
D13811
Turner Bequest CLXIX 39a
Pencil on white wove paper, 119 x 87 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil with calculations (see main catalogue entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Of the two helmets shown here, drawn with the page turned vertically, the one at the top left may have informed Turner’s 1819 vignette of weaponry for his Views in Sussex, while the flanged mace head at the foot of the page corresponds closely to the one in the finished design. For a fuller discussion see the entry for folio 1 recto (D13751), a page of similar studies; there are further related sketches on folio 40 verso (D13813).
Below and to the right of centre of the page is a two-stage multiplication, descending vertically in relation to the drawings (and inverted relative to the foliation):
  83 
   7 
 581
   2 
1162 

Matthew Imms
September 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Studies of Helmets and a Mace for the Title Page of ‘Views in Sussex’ c.1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2013, 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-studies-of-helmets-and-a-mace-for-the-title-page-of-views-in-r1147534, accessed 16 April 2024.