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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Studies of a Man or Boy Sitting in the Branches of a Tree ?1795

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Studies of a Man or Boy Sitting in the Branches of a Tree’ ?1795
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Verso:
Two Studies of a Man or Boy Sitting in the Branches of a Tree ?1795
D00313
Turner Bequest XX 36a
Pencil on white laid paper, 152 x 99 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The studies are inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation. Compare the drawings on folios 33 verso–34 recto, 37 verso and 41 verso (D00307, D00308, D00315, D00322).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Two Studies of a Man or Boy Sitting in the Branches of a Tree ?1795 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-two-studies-of-a-man-or-boy-sitting-in-the-branches-of-a-r1140706, accessed 24 April 2024.