Joseph Mallord William Turner

Perspective Drawing of a Building

c.1810–28

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: V. Miscellaneous Preparatory Perspective Material
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 660 x 835 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D17102
Turner Bequest CXCV 131

Catalogue entry

This sketch of a building in perspective was made in connection with Turner’s lectures as Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy.

Technical notes:

Peter Bower (unpublished notes)1 writes that the sheet is Pott Quad size paper made by Joseph Ruse, Upper Tovil Mill, Maidstone, Kent.

Notes in Tate catalogue files.

Verso:

Blank, save for an inscription by an unknown hand in pencil ‘125’ bottom left

Andrea Fredericksen
June 2004

Supported by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Revised by David Blayney Brown
January 2012

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