Edgar Calel's The Echo of an Ancient Form of Knowledge | Tate

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Inside JMW Turner’s sketchbooks | Tate #arthistory #history #drawing #sketching #sketchbook

What Turner's sketchbooks tell us about his love of travel | Tate

For JMW Turner, sketchbooks allowed him to capture the world around him while he was travelling. The books came in all shapes and sizes, containing beautifully detailed watercolours and the quickest of pencil sketches, as well as shopping lists, medical advice and language survival phrases. These drawings often formed the basis for large scale oil paintings, once he was back in his studio. To mark 250 years since JMW Turn...