J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketch of a Tree, Possibly a Study for 'An Old Oak', Rogers's 'Poems' c.1830-2

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Sketch of a Tree, Possibly a Study for ‘An Old Oak’, Rogers’s ‘Poems’ circa 1830–2
D41513
Turner Bequest verso of CCLXXX 175
Pencil on paper, approximately 105 x 110 mm on white wove paper, 190 x 248 mm
Inscribed by unknown hands in pencil ‘19 c’ top centre right and ‘26’ upper centre left
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXX 175’ centre right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough sketch of a tree appears on the verso of Turner’s vignette illustration, Ship-building (An Old Oak Dead). The watercolour was engraved and published in the 1834 edition of Rogers’s Poems, where it appears as the tail-piece to a poem entitled, ‘To an Old Oak’ (see Tate D27692; Turner Bequest CCLXXX 175). The sketch is probably a preliminary drawing for an accompanying vignette, An Old Oak, the head-piece for the same poem (see Tate D27691; Turner Bequest CCLXXX 174).

Meredith Gamer
August 2006

How to cite

Meredith Gamer, ‘Sketch of a Tree, Possibly a Study for ‘An Old Oak’, Rogers’s ‘Poems’ c.1830–2 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2006, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sketch-of-a-tree-possibly-a-study-for-an-old-oak-rogerss-r1133365, accessed 21 September 2024.