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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tracing of a Perspective Construction of a Tuscan Entablature c.1810

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tracing of a Perspective Construction of a Tuscan Entablature’ c.1810
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Tracing of a Perspective Construction of a Tuscan Entablature circa 1810
D17077
Turner Bequest CXCV 107
Tracing ink on white wove paper, 655 x 834 mm
Watermarked ‘J. RUSE | 1800’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘107’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This tracing of a perspective construction of a Tuscan entablature was made from Diagram 55 (Tate D17076; Turner Bequest CXCV 106; see also D40006 for verso) used during Turner’s lectures as Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy. See Diagram 56 (Tate D17079; Turner Bequest CXCV 109) for a complete watercolour also based on a tracing.
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Peter Bower (unpublished notes)1 writes that the sheet is Pott Quad size paper made by Joseph Ruse, Upper Tovil Mill, Maidstone, Kent.
1
Notes in Tate catalogue files.
Verso:
Blank, save for an inscription by an unknown hand in pencil ‘102a’ 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, ‘Tracing of a Perspective Construction of a Tuscan Entablature 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-tracing-of-a-perspective-construction-of-a-tuscan-r1136813, accessed 23 April 2024.