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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Plans and Sections of a Picture Gallery, with Roof Lights c.1818-22

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Plans and Sections of a Picture Gallery, with Roof Lights’ c.1818-22
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Verso:
Plans and Sections of a Picture Gallery, with Roof Lights circa 1818–22
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Turner Bequest CV 43a
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘3 3’, ‘2 6’ and ‘48’ against plans
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. These plans are to be associated with Turner’s plans for his own gallery, along with other drawings and diagrams in the sketchbook; see Introduction 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, ‘Plans and Sections of a Picture Gallery, with Roof Lights 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-plans-and-sections-of-a-picture-gallery-with-roof-lights-r1134569, accessed 25 April 2024.