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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of an Ornament Decorated with Bas-Reliefs, Rome 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of an Ornament Decorated with Bas-Reliefs, Rome’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 69 Verso:
Study of an Ornament Decorated with Bas-Reliefs, Rome 1819
D16281
Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 68 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 189 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?Gaius]’ underneath sketch
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This inverted sketch appears to show part of an architectural or ornamental feature decorated with figurative bas-reliefs, although the subject has not been identified.

Nicola Moorby
January 2009

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Study of an Ornament Decorated with Bas-Reliefs, Rome 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2009, 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-of-an-ornament-decorated-with-bas-reliefs-rome-r1139793, accessed 06 May 2025.