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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Marine subjects c.1803-14 > Shipwreck (2) Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Trees c.1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Trees’ c.1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Verso:
?Trees circa 1805
D40697
Pencil on cream laid paper 119 x 189 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in pencil ‘out of 190. JR’ top right, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Not noticed by Finberg, this extremely slight, hasty and partial scribble is hard to interpret, but may be a small group of trees, drawn with the sketchbook inverted. Conceivably it is related to the views of the Thames at Richmond on folios 14 and 15 (D05441, D05442), the only other drawings in the book to be made in pencil only.

David Blayney Brown
February 2006

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?Trees c.1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-trees-r1139218, accessed 24 April 2024.