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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Studies of Armorial Devices 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Studies of Armorial Devices’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 105 Verso:
Two Studies of Armorial Devices 1799
D02150
Turner Bequest XLVI 105
Pencil on white wove paper, 130 x 79 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?Squares]’ towards top right, ‘[?Joyce]’ centre right, and ‘Each Knot touches the Shield | except the upper points’ below centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The context of these details, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, has yet to be established.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Two Studies of Armorial Devices 1799 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-studies-of-armorial-devices-r1180009, accessed 27 April 2024.