'Houses and Trees with a Church Tower in the Distance', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Houses and Trees with a Church Tower in the Distance

From Spithead Sketchbook

Turner Bequest C

Date 1807

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 118 x 187 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D06554

Turner Bequest C 34

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 35 Recto:

Houses and Trees with a Church Tower in the Distance 1807

D06554
Turner Bequest C 34

Pencil on off-white wove paper, 118 x 187 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘34’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘C 34’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

The same church is seen on folios 36 verso and 37 verso of the sketchbook (D06556, D06558; Turner Bequest C 35a, 36a).

Verso:

Blank

David Blayney Brown
May 2006

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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

Spithead Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest