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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1813 > Chemistry and Apuleia Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Tall Trees c.1813

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tall Trees’ c.1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Recto:
Tall Trees c.1813
D09948
Turner Bequest CXXXV 45
Pencil on white wove paper, 88 x 113 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘45’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXV – 45’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Although the trees here do not correlate closely with those on the left of Turner’s large painting Crossing the Brook, exhibited in 1815 (Tate N00497),1 there may be a distant connection. For further discussion of various landscape and tree studies in this sketchbook in that context, see under folio 14 recto (D09910).
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).
Technical notes:
There is a small, ringed spot of foxing at the top left, showing through from the verso.
Verso:
Blank

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘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-tall-trees-r1147903, accessed 20 September 2024.