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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Designs for Sandycombe Lodge, Twickenham c.1809-11

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Designs for Sandycombe Lodge, Twickenham’ c.1809-11
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Designs for Sandycombe Lodge, Twickenham circa 1809–11
D08972
Turner Bequest CXXVII 7
Pencil on white wove paper, 126 x 201 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘7’ top left, upside down (now very faint)
Stamped in black ‘CXXVII 7’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of numerous pages in this sketchbook relating to Turner’s self-designed Twickenham house, Sandycombe Lodge (see the Introduction to the sketchbook). As noted under D08966 (CXXVII 2), most of the designs in the book show variations on the central block of the house more or less as built, with variations in the lower flanking wings.1
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See Youngblood 1982, pp.29, and 35 notes 78–82.
Technical notes:
This page is a face of one of the loose bifolio sheets which form the majority of the so-called Sandycombe and Yorkshire sketchbook, along with a few single leaves. The sheets were not bound, but folded inside each other in a sequence which is not entirely recoverable (see the sketchbook’s Introduction for a suggested order). When unfolded, this page is continuous with D08971 (CXXVII 6a); the measurements given above are for the present work alone.
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Matthew Imms
January 2012

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Designs for Sandycombe Lodge, Twickenham c.1809–11 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-designs-for-sandycombe-lodge-twickenham-r1134683, accessed 02 December 2024.