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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country and Yorkshire 1814-17 > Devon Rivers, No.2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner An Architectural Study: ?Panelling in the Oak Room, Farnley Hall ?1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘An Architectural Study: ?Panelling in the Oak Room, Farnley Hall’ ?1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 78 Verso:
An Architectural Study: ?Panelling in the Oak Room, Farnley Hall ?1814
D09778
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 78v
Pencil on white wove paper, 178 x 110 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight study was not recorded in Finberg’s Inventory.1 It may show panelling in the Oak Room at Farnley Hall, in relation to other studies on folios 74 verso–75 recto, 76 verso (D09770–D09771, D09774) and 80 recto (D09779; CXXXIII 79). It is not clear which way up the drawing should be read, though in relation to the main sequence of the book it appears at the top of the page with a small reversed ‘L’ shape to the top right, which may indicate a section of moulding, as also seen in the third of the drawings mentioned above; see under D09770 for further discussion.

Matthew Imms
July 2014

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See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.379.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘An Architectural Study: ?Panelling in the Oak Room, Farnley Hall ?1814 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-an-architectural-study-panelling-in-the-oak-room-farnley-r1147329, accessed 23 September 2024.