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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Treatment for Dry Rot c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Treatment for Dry Rot’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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A Treatment for Dry Rot c.1824
D18316
Turner Bequest CCX 3a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 75 mm
Watermarked ‘Smith & [Allnutt] | 18 [22]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner with a treatment for dry rot (transcribed in full in the main entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has written a recipe for the treatment of dry rot in wood. Other recipes and notes relating to the preparation of pigments and the processes of lithographic reproduction are on Tate D18313–D18315; Turner Bequest CCX 2–3.
Turner’s notes are transcribed thus:
‘Cure for dry Rot
White Arsenic 2 oz 1 gall
of soft W boiling. If boild
in a tin or Iron Vessel
½ oz of Copper Filings
Quart of Sizw ½ lb of
Tar small quantity of fresh
slacked Lime beat up
in paste and mix’d with
more lime until it forms
a coat’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘A Treatment for Dry Rot c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-treatment-for-dry-rot-r1181201, accessed 24 April 2024.