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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Small Sketch of a ?Lighthouse 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Small Sketch of a ?Lighthouse’ 1834 (Blank right-hand page of sketchbook)
Blank right-hand page of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
Small Sketch of a ?Lighthouse 1834
D26099
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 3
Pencil on white wove paper, 181 x 111 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVIII – 3’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page is blank apart from a little pencil mark at the bottom left, which may be the beginning of a sketch, perhaps of a lighthouse, unless it was made accidentally by Turner when he was drawing on folio 2 verso (D26098).
There are light brown stains across the top of this page.

Thomas Ardill
January 2011

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Small Sketch of a ?Lighthouse 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2011, 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-small-sketch-of-a-lighthouse-r1136027, accessed 21 November 2024.