'?Trees', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

?Trees

From Sussex Sketchbook

Turner Bequest XCII

Date c.1806-10

MediumChalk and graphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 153 x 216 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D05729

Turner Bequest XCII 10 a

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 16 Verso:

?Trees circa 1806–10

D05729
Turner Bequest XCII 10a

Pencil on cream wove paper, prepared with a buff wash, 153 x 216 mm

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

This a very slight outline, seemingly of trees. There is a sooty deposit along the right edge of the paper, and see note to the recto (D05728; Turner Bequest XCII 10) for past creasing and flattening of the paper.

David Blayney Brown
April 2010

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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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1802-18 Academician and professor

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Gifts and bequests

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