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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Diagrams: Ground Plan of a Square Building; a Tower c.1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Diagrams: Ground Plan of a Square Building; a Tower’ c.1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Two Diagrams: Ground Plan of a Square Building; a Tower c.1798
D41440
Pencil on white wove paper, 434 x 277 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman 1794’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘100’ towards bottom centre, ascending diagonally along one of the uprights of the tower
Inscribed in pencil ‘XXXIII.A’ top right, ascending vertically
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The two sketches may relate to the same building, possibly a church tower with a spire. They are unconnected with the landscape watercolour on the recto (D00872; Turner Bequest XXXIII A).
Technical notes:
There are ochre and grey paint smears; the sheet is stained with glue and by the leaching of the blue pigment on the recto (D00872).

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Two Diagrams: Ground Plan of a Square Building; a Tower c.1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, 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-two-diagrams-ground-plan-of-a-square-building-a-tower-r1174955, accessed 20 September 2024.