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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Tall Trees c.1813

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Tall Trees’ c.1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Verso:
Two Tall Trees c.1813
D09918
Turner Bequest CXXXV 18a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 88 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned vertically, this sketch continues with the tree trunks ‘below’ on folio 19 recto opposite (D09919). As with the drawings on preceding pages, it may relate to the intertwined trees on the left of Turner’s large painting Crossing the Brook, exhibited in 1815 (Tate N00497).1 For further discussion of various landscape and tree studies in this sketchbook in that context, see under folio 14 recto (D09910).

Matthew Imms
April 2014

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.93–4 no.130, pl.123 (colour).

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Two Tall Trees c.1813 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-tall-trees-r1147873, accessed 24 April 2024.