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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?A Screen of Trees, with a Hill or Headland Beyond c.1834-6

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?A Screen of Trees, with a Hill or Headland Beyond’ c.1834-6
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 46 Verso:
?A Screen of Trees, with a Hill or Headland Beyond c.1834–6
D28853
Turner Bequest CCXCI b 46
Pencil on white wove paper, 77 x 101 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the main subject appears to be a rough study of foreground trees with a hill or coastal headland beyond. At the top left is a slight continuation from one of the landscape sketches on folio 47 recto opposite (D28855). This is one of various watercolour and pencil landscape studies towards the end of this sketchbook, as set out in the Introduction.
The unaccessioned recto is inscribed in red ink ‘46’ and stamped ‘CCXCI(b) – 46’, and is blank save for very slight offsetting of ink from folio 45 verso opposite (D28852).

Matthew Imms
May 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?A Screen of Trees, with a Hill or Headland Beyond c.1834–6 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-a-screen-of-trees-with-a-hill-or-headland-beyond-r1149075, accessed 26 April 2024.