Article from the Archives
- The Editor
- Jan 16
- 1 min read
To coincide with the recent Turner 250 Conference, which was held at the Tate Gallery last month to mark JMW Turner’s bicentenary, we are making an article from our archives freely available to newsletter subscribers. Appearing in only the third issue of the Volume of the Walpole Society, this article by Alexander Finberg on Turner’s South Wales Sketchbook, part of the Turner Bequest now in the Tate, is closely bound up with the Walpole Society’s foundation. It was when cataloguing the Turner Bequest that Finberg first had the idea of founding the Walpole Society, realising that very little was known about the artists who were, in fact, the authors of drawings that had been misattributed to Turner. For more about the Society and its origins, listen to this episode of our British Art Matters podcast, in which Christina Faraday chats with Richard Stephens about the early history of the Society.
To download a PDF of the article Alexander J. Finberg 'Some Leaves from Turner's 'South Wales' Sketchbook' The Volume of the Walpole Society 3 (1913):89-97, please click below.
