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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Perspective Drawing of a Building c.1810-28

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Perspective Drawing of a Building’ c.1810-28
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Perspective Drawing of a Building circa 1810–28
D17102
Turner Bequest CXCV 131
Pencil on white wove paper, 660 x 835 mm
Watermarked ‘J RUSE | 1800’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘131’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch of a building in perspective was made in connection with Turner’s lectures as Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy.
Technical notes:
Peter Bower (unpublished notes)1 writes that the sheet is Pott Quad size paper made by Joseph Ruse, Upper Tovil Mill, Maidstone, Kent.
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Notes in Tate catalogue files.
Verso:
Blank, save for an inscription by an unknown hand in pencil ‘125’ bottom left

Andrea Fredericksen
June 2004

Supported by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Revised by David Blayney Brown
January 2012

How to cite

Andrea Fredericksen, ‘Perspective Drawing of a Building c.1810–28 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-perspective-drawing-of-a-building-r1136809, accessed 24 April 2024.