Joseph Mallord William Turner

Classical Architecture; an Arcade and other Buildings

c.1815–17

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Prints and Drawings Room

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Hints River Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 88 × 114 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D10636
Turner Bequest CXLI 30 a

Catalogue entry

Drawn with the sketchbook inverted, this is one of several sketches of classical architecture in this sketchbook, culminating in a double-spread study on folios 32 verso–33 (D10640–10641) which, though very rubbed, seems to be a study for The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire (Tate N00499)1 exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1817. The arcade or row of arches sketched here might be very loosely connected with one in the middle distance to right of centre in the picture.

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed.1984, New Haven and London 1984, pp.100–1 no.135 (pl.137).

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