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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Classical Colonnade or Rotunda c.1808-11

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Classical Colonnade or Rotunda’ c.1808-11
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 57 Verso:
A Classical Colonnade or Rotunda circa 1808–11
D08034
Turner Bequest CXIV 57a
Pencil on white wove paper, 117 x 87 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This building, fronted by a Doric colonnade or rotunda, remains unidentified. It appears to be a real structure rather than an idealised design, and was perhaps sketched in London, as were several prominent classical buildings in preparation for Turner’s Royal Academy perspective lectures, beginning in January 1811 (see the Introduction to the sketchbook).

Matthew Imms
January 2012

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Classical Colonnade or Rotunda c.1808–11 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2012, 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-a-classical-colonnade-or-rotunda-r1134813, accessed 19 April 2024.