Fairground Frieze – Scroll

John Doman Turner, Fairground Frieze Scroll, 1934

Title Fairground Frieze Artist John Doman Turner Date 1934 Medium Scroll, Pencil and watercolour on paper Dimensions Height: 22.5 cm, Length: 743 cm Distinguishing marks Collection V&A Museum Exhibitions Source V&A: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O120957/fairground-frieze-drawing-turner-john-doman/ Described by the V&A as a ‘very long paper frieze rolled around wooden ‘cotton reel’ composed of a series of pencil drawings and watercolours… Continue reading Fairground Frieze – Scroll

How our research led us to find where John Doman Turner’s ‘Fairground Frieze’ scroll is kept

For those of you that don’t know, John Doman Turner (25 October 1871 – 3 January 1938) was a deaf British painter and member of the Camden Town Group. There was little known about his works for many years, but in recent times, more and more of his work is beginning to surface – the most recent being… Continue reading How our research led us to find where John Doman Turner’s ‘Fairground Frieze’ scroll is kept