Joseph Mallord William Turner

?Palace and Parkland

1839

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In Tate Britain

Prints and Drawings Room

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
First Mossel and Oxford Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 140 × 235 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D41093

Catalogue entry

These rough and fluidly rendered jottings show trees, a shaded figure or statue holding a vertical object, perhaps a spear, and the profile of what appears to be the same palace as shown on Tate D28350; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 30a from a distance.
Technical notes:
The leather corners of the binding have caused some discolouration in the corresponding areas of the sheet. There has also been significant offsetting of the pencil lead from the folio opposite (Tate D28350; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 30a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

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