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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Roots and Trunks of a Group of Trees ?1799

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Roots and Trunks of a Group of Trees’ ?1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 69 Verso:
The Roots and Trunks of a Group of Trees ?1799
D01814
Turner Bequest XLII 138
Pencil, pen and ink, watercolour and gouache on buff laid paper, 174 x 125 mm
Stamped in black ‘XLII – 138’ top right, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the study is continued on folio 70 recto opposite (D01815; Turner Bequest XLII 139), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Roots and Trunks of a Group of Trees ?1799 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-roots-and-trunks-of-a-group-of-trees-r1174009, accessed 19 September 2024.