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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Fort Bard Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Unidentified Subject 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Unidentified Subject’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 42 Verso:
Unidentified Subject 1836
D29287
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 41a
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Despite Finberg’s description of this subject as a ‘tunnelled passage’, Turner’s few pencil lines seem indecipherable.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Unidentified Subject 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-unidentified-subject-r1144837, accessed 19 September 2024.