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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches c.1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches’ c.1819 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
Sketches circa 1819
D40679
Turner Bequest
Pencil and pen and black ink and wash on white wove paper, 99 x 155 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s use of his sketchbooks was often sporadic and this page contains a number of unconnected elements. The dominant drawing is pen-and-ink sketch which appears to show several figures and a rearing horse in the background. The subject is unidentified although it may be a copy of a work of art, or an idea for a composition. It appears to have been drawn over the top of an underlying pencil study of a landscape.
At the top of the page are several geometrical diagrams similar to the ones on the preceding page, see folio 30 verso (D13989).
Verso:
Back Cover

Nicola Moorby
July 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Sketches c.1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2008, 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-sketches-r1138811, accessed 27 December 2024.