Cataloguing Turner's Sketchbooks Ends

December 10 2025

Video: Paul Mellon Centre

Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

A collaborative project to catalogue JMW Turner's sketchbooks has just ended. This mammoth task, shared between Tate and the Paul Mellon Centre, has seen the cataloguing of 37,000 drawings, sketches and watercolours by the artist. Click here to access the website which allows visitors to have for themselves!

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