Joseph Mallord William Turner

Elevation and Floor Plan Designs for and Alternative Prospects of Sandycombe Lodge, Twickenham

c.1809–11

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Sandycombe and Yorkshire Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 126 × 202 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D08982
Turner Bequest CXXVII 13 a

Catalogue entry

This is one of numerous pages in this sketchbook relating to Turner’s self-designed Twickenham house, Sandycombe Lodge (see the Introduction to the sketchbook). As noted under D08966 (CXXVII 2), most of the designs in the book show variations on the central block of the house more or less as built, with variations in the lower flanking wings.1
1
See Youngblood 1982, pp.29, and 35 notes 78–82; see also Warrell and Perkins 1988, p.24.
Technical notes:
This page is a face of one of the loose bifolio sheets which form the majority of the so-called Sandycombe and Yorkshire sketchbook, along with a few single leaves. The sheets were not bound, but folded inside each other in a sequence which is not entirely recoverable (see the sketchbook’s Introduction for a suggested order). When unfolded, this page is continuous with D08988 (CXXVII 18); the measurements given above are for the present work alone.

Matthew Imms
January 2012

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