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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin Part of the Ruins of a Classical Temple c.1794-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin, ‘Part of the Ruins of a Classical Temple’ c.1794-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Thomas Girtin 1775–1802
Folio 29 Recto:
Part of the Ruins of a Classical Temple c.1794–8
D36507
Turner Bequest CCCLXXIV 28
Pencil and grey and blue-grey wash on white wove paper, 271 x 192 mm mounted on white cartridge paper, 480 x 368 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘28’ on mount, bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXXIV – 28’ on mount, bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The work is mounted with the album page turned vertically. Finberg surmised1 that this, like one of the views on folio 28 recto (D36506; Turner Bequest CCCLXXIV 27 b), is a copy after Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691–1765). It may however be derived from a work by Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721–1820) or another eighteenth-century painter of classical capricci.
1
MS note, Tate catalogue files.
Verso:
Blank (laid down).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Part of the Ruins of a Classical Temple c.1794–8 by Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin’, catalogue entry, April 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-thomas-girtin-part-of-the-ruins-of-a-classical-temple-r1140575, accessed 26 December 2024.