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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Studies of Plants and Flowers 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Studies of Plants and Flowers’ 1819 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
Studies of Plants and Flowers 1819
D40946
Turner Bequest
Pencil on white wove paper, 197 x 122 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘P[...]’, ‘orange’, ‘Fig P’, ‘Red [...]’ and ‘[?sponge B...] within sketches top left, and ‘[?Hare ...] top right. Also ‘W [?Diana]’, ‘wood yellow’, ‘W white [?I..] | [?Erica]’, and ‘Dark G Myrtle’, ‘Yellow top | W under’ within central sketches. Also ‘[?cath]’ and ‘yellow wormwood’ bottom
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has used the inside back cover of the sketchbook to make several swift sketches of plants and flowers, presumably dating from his 1819 exploration of Naples and the surrounding area. Amongst the identifiable species are studies of fig leaves, myrtle and wormwood.

Nicola Moorby
June 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Studies of Plants and Flowers 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, 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-studies-of-plants-and-flowers-r1138200, accessed 19 September 2024.