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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Chalk Tests or Doodles c.1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Chalk Tests or Doodles’ c.1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Chalk Tests or Doodles c.1831
D34017
Turner Bequest CCCXLI 298v
Chalk on light grey wove paper, 154 x 235 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘298’ top left, upside down
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These confident, elaborate but seemingly random tests or doodles are not mentioned in Finberg’s Inventory.1
The recto, a view of Fingal’s Cave drawn in or shortly after 1831, is D34016 (Turner Bequest CCCXLI 298).
Technical notes:
There is pale speckling across much of the sheet.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Chalk Tests or Doodles c.1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, October 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-chalk-tests-or-doodles-r1182324, accessed 18 May 2024.