J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Study for 'Isis': a Classical Rotunda by the River 1805

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
Study for ‘Isis’: a Classical Rotunda by the River 1805
D05495
Turner Bequest XC 4
Pencil on off-white wove paper, prepared with a grey wash, 150 x 258 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘4’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XC 4’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For the subject and related work see note to folio 3 of the sketchbook (D05494). Compare also another view, formerly in the Thames from Reading to Walton sketchbook (Tate D05915; Turner Bequest XCV 11).
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David Blayney Brown
August 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Study for ‘Isis’: a Classical Rotunda by the River 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2007, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-study-for-isis-a-classical-rotunda-by-the-river-r1129806, accessed 18 April 2024.