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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Erotica and Improvisations c.1834-6 > Fishing at the Weir Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?A Dark Interior or Curtained Bed c.1834-6

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?A Dark Interior or Curtained Bed’ c.1834-6
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Recto:
?A Dark Interior or Curtained Bed c.1834–6
D27729
Turner Bequest CCLXXXI 2
Watercolour on white wove paper, 79 x 101 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘2’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXI – 2’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As set out in the Introduction, numerous pages in the first third of this sketchbook have had rough watercolour washes applied, which have then been developed into compositions to varying degrees. Here there seems to be the suggestion of a dim curtained interior, or perhaps a curtained bed, but the image has hardly evolved out of the washes.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?A Dark Interior or Curtained Bed c.1834–6 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-a-dark-interior-or-curtained-bed-r1149093, accessed 07 July 2024.