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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Indications of Transfer Process c.1810

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Indications of Transfer Process circa 1810
D40015
Transfer ink on white wove paper, 590 x 724 mm
Watermarked ‘1801 | J WHATMAN’
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘165’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These indications of Turner’s transfer process occur on the back of Diagram 8/3 (Tate D17142; Turner Bequest CXCV 171). They suggest that Turner traced the outlines of an Athenian stoa or portico in order to make the guiding lines of Diagram 8/2 (Tate D17141; Turner Bequest CXCV 170) and a tracing left incomplete (Tate D17132).

Andrea Fredericksen
June 2004

Supported by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Revised by David Blayney Brown
January 2012

How to cite

Andrea Fredericksen, ‘Indications of Transfer Process c.1810 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2004, revised by David Blayney Brown, 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-indications-of-transfer-process-r1136470, accessed 28 March 2024.