Joseph Mallord William Turner

The fragment has been set into a new, blank leaf. It appears to record carved ‘linenfold’ panelling and an ogee moulding, and may relate to further architectural details on the opposite page. As with other such details from folio 74 verso (D09770) onwards they may relate to Farnley Hall, or another of Walter Fawkes’s Yorkshire properties as seen at the beginning of the sketchbook from folio 4 verso onwards (D09673); see under D09770 for further discussion.

Whether the sheet was torn away irregularly to dispose of the inscription on the recto (Tate D40819) while retaining the drawing here, or the drawing was made on the stub after it had been torn, is unclear.