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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Small Sea-Piece; and Notes on Lithographic Technique 1821

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Small Sea-Piece; and Notes on Lithographic Technique’ 1821
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Recto:
Small Sea-Piece; and Notes on Lithographic Technique 1821
D18558
Turner Bequest CCXI 22
Pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Pen – Dabbing by balls & by Blacked or loaded paper – tracing paper | Scraping off the Lights then [?]cleaning by[?]pen then by Chalk’
Stamped in black ‘CCXI – 22’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s inscription (see above) has been identified as relating to the lithographic process and to a set of lithographs entitled Voyages pittoresque et romantiques dans l’ancienne France, published in 1821 by Isadore Taylor (1789–1879) and Charles Nodier (1780–1844); see folios 10 verso and 20 (Tate D18541, D18555; Turner Bequest CCXI 10v, 20).1 Perhaps the tiny thumbnail composition of a shipping scene at the top right of the page may be copied from a lithograph.

Thomas Ardill
March 2013

1
Warrell 1997, pp.16, 206 note 15; and Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999, pp.24, 253 note 44.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Small Sea-Piece; and Notes on Lithographic Technique 1821 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-small-sea-piece-and-notes-on-lithographic-technique-r1146254, accessed 25 April 2024.