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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 5 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Few Tree Trunks 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Few Tree Trunks’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Recto:
A Few Tree Trunks 1816
D11575
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 31
Pencil on white wove paper, 173 x 260 mm
Faintly inscribed by ?John Ruskin with an unidentified numeral bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXLVIII 25’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This note of a few small trees at the top left of the page appears to be the continuation of a drawing, but not of folio 32 verso (D40861, the verso of Turner Bequest CXLVIII 25, now bound opposite). One possible association might be with folio 38 recto (D11549; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 16), but that would entail a fairly comprehensive reordering of this part of the book.
The inscribed number is washed out, leaving little more than a pink residue.

David Hill
May 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘A Few Tree Trunks 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-few-tree-trunks-r1143719, accessed 25 April 2024.