'Group of Trees', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Group of Trees

From Small Calais Pier Sketchbook

Turner Bequest LXXI

Date 1802

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 187 x 112 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D04249

Turner Bequest LXXI 50

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 58 Recto:

Group of Trees

D04249
Turner Bequest LXXI 50

Pencil, with some scratching out, on wove paper prepared with a grey wash, 187 x 112 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXI 50’ top right, running vertically

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Numbered by Finberg as folio 50 of this sketchbook, this has since been rebound as folio 58. Turner turned the book sideways to draw an upright composition. Two very similar sketches of trees are on folios 59 and 60 (D04250, D04251). All were doubtless drawn on the way to Paris.

Verso:

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David Blayney Brown
April 2003

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.

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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sketchbooks

1802-18 Academician and professor

Sketchbooks from the 1800s

Small Calais Pier Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest