(ff. i + 21). Lectures i and ii, early version; n.d. (wm 1807). Autograph. includes: f. i Bookplates and Book-stamps: Turner (Charles Mallord William), d. 1934. f.i Charles Mallord William Turner, d 1934: Armorial book plate.: 1934.
ROYAL ACADEMY LECTURES by Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A., as Professor of Perspective and Geometry, a post to which he was elected 10 Dec. 1807 and which he resigned 10 Feb. 1838 (see A. J. Finberg, Life of Turner, 1939; 2nd ed. 1961, pp. 138, 369). By the terms of office an annual course of six public lectures was obligatory and the present material consists mainly of the script of these lectures in various stages, draft and copy, mostly undated except by watermark (cited as wm), much ...
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Art. Treatises: J. M. W. Turner's Royal Academy Lectures, etc.: 1806-1827. Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA: Royal Academy Lectures: 1810-1827. Royal Academy of Arts: Lectures by J. M. W. Turner, as Professor of Perspective: 1810-1827.
IV. MISCELLANEOUS 46151 BB (ff. 75). Detached leaves and other fragments in Turner's autograph, arranged roughly according to dated watermarks and other dates where available; 1806-1827, n.d. At f. 72 is a letter from Alexander Henry Hallam Murray, publisher, to the then owner, C. M. W. Turner, ...
(ff. i + 10). Lecture ii (on Vision); n.d. (wm 1807). Autograph. Subscribed (f. 10) 'The End of the Fourth Lecture'. Inserted (f. i) is a note by Dugald Sutherland MacColl, Keeper (1906-1911) of the Tate Gallery.