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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Designs for the Arrangement of Curtains in a Picture Gallery c.1818-22

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Designs for the Arrangement of Curtains in a Picture Gallery’ c.1818-22
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Recto:
Designs for the Arrangement of Curtains in a Picture Gallery circa 1818–22
D07044
Turner Bequest CV 43
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘43’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CV 43’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. Turner shows three versions of the end wall of a gallery, with a section of a sloped ceiling and roof light, and ideas for drapery to protect pictures from glare. See notes to folio 22 (D07005; Turner Bequest CV 19a) which has similar ideas for curtains or blinds around pictures in a gallery with a sloped-edged ceiling, and to folio 46 verso (D07043; Turner Bequest CV 42a) showing a row of pictures on a side wall with a chimneypiece, also shaded by drapes. These are to be associated with Turner’s plans for his own gallery, along with other drawings and diagrams in the sketchbook; see Introduction to the sketchbook for Turner’s new gallery behind his house in Queen Anne Street West, opened in 1822.

David Blayney Brown
June 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Designs for the Arrangement of Curtains in a Picture Gallery c.1818–22 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, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-designs-for-the-arrangement-of-curtains-in-a-picture-gallery-r1134568, accessed 25 April 2024.