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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Studies of a Larch Tree, Branch and Needles c.1800-1

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Studies of a Larch Tree, Branch and Needles’ c.1800-1
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Recto:
Studies of a Larch Tree, Branch and Needles c.1800–1
D40781
Turner Bequest LXI 62
Ink on coarse off-white wove paper, 206 x 131 mm
Inscribed by Turner in ink ‘Larch –’ top centre, ‘Light green rather cold | Stem brown and knotted’ towards top left, and ‘bark smooth’ towards top right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘181’ bottom left
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXI – 62’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There are other studies of foliage, showing horse chestnut and laurel leaves, on the verso of this leaf (D03718) and folio 6 verso (D03719; Turner Bequest LXI 63v).
Technical notes:
The page is discoloured from exposure during the prolonged exhibition of the verso (D03718). This and the next leaf, folio 6 (D03720, D03719; Turner Bequest LXI 63, 63v), were noted by Finberg in 1909 as ‘loose pages’;1 he suggested that they had been ‘cut out’ from this point in the book,2 where they have subsequently been rebound.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.164.
2
See ibid., p.163.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Studies of a Larch Tree, Branch and Needles c.1800–1 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-studies-of-a-larch-tree-branch-and-needles-r1178039, accessed 26 April 2024.