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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Building with Classical Details c.1825

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Building with Classical Details’ c.1825
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 87 Recto:
A Building with Classical Details c.1825
D18697
Turner Bequest CCXII 87
Pencil on white wove paper, 188 x 114 mm
Part watermark ‘lee | 19’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘87’ top right, ascending vertically [now very faint]
Stamped in black ‘CCXII – 87’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned vertically, this rapid sketch in one corner shows what seems to be the side elevation of a substantial building with a columned classical portico and an aedicule window or recess above arches projecting from corbels. Without immediate context the structure remains unidentified, but it is possibly either a large house in the Richmond upon Thames area or perhaps a church in the Low Countries, if it is accepted that some of the figure studies at each end of this sketchbook were made on tour there in August 1825; see the Introduction.
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Matthew Imms
December 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Building with Classical Details c.1825 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-building-with-classical-details-r1172816, accessed 23 September 2024.