Joseph Mallord William Turner

Offset of Study for the Composition of ‘Dolbadern Castle, North Wales’

c.1799–1800

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Studies for Pictures Sketchbook
Medium
Ink and graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 210 x 135 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D40588

Catalogue entry

Not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory,1 this adventitious offset of coloured chalks from the landscape composition on folio 107 recto (D04124; Turner Bequest LXIX 108) indicates that the pages were once bound consecutively.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.173.

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