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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Sketch Map with Roads and a Building c.1808-18

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Sketch Map with Roads and a Building’ c.1808-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Verso:
A Sketch Map with Roads and a Building c.1808–18
D12193
Turner Bequest CLIV a 51a
Pencil on white wove paper, 89 x 112 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The significance of this simple map, probably showing a small building beside a fork in a road, is unclear. The sketch appears tentative, as if perhaps drawn from memory, with the road descending towards the bottom centre seemingly indicated twice. It does not correlate with the various maps and plans of Sandycombe Lodge, Turner’s self-designed home, built at Twickenham around 1812 on land acquired in 1807 – compare the separate Sandycombe related sheets (Tate D08232, D08235; Turner Bequest CXX R, U), and pages in the Derbyshire sketchbook (Tate D07188; Turner Bequest CVI 48a) and the Sandycombe and Yorkshire sketchbook (Tate D08994; Turner Bequest CXXVII 21a).

Matthew Imms
September 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Sketch Map with Roads and a Building c.1808–18 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-a-sketch-map-with-roads-and-a-building-r1147610, accessed 19 April 2024.