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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > History Painting c.1799-1807 > Calais Pier Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Foliage, Branches and Rocks c.1799-1805

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Foliage, Branches and Rocks’ c.1799-1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Verso:
?Foliage, Branches and Rocks c.1799–1805
D04929
Turner Bequest LXXXI 28
Black and white chalks on blue laid paper, 436 x 271 mm
Watermark ‘1794’
Stamped in black ‘LXXXI–28’ top right, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Disrupted by the removal of a large proportion of the sheet, making the drawing’s orientation uncertain, this is perhaps a study for the painting Jason, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1802 (Tate N00471;1 see folio 4 recto; D04908; Turner Bequest LXXXI 7), the Holy Family, exhibited at the Academy in 1803 (Tate N00473;2 see folios 31 verso–33 recto; D04962–D04965; Turner Bequest LXXXI 60–63), or alternatively for one of the projected ‘Adonis’ subjects (see folios 23 verso–27 verso; D04946–D04954; Turner Bequest LXXXI 44–52).
1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.18 no.19, pl.15.
2
Ibid., pp.38–9 no.49, pl.60.
Technical notes:
About half the area of the leaf has been torn away at the left, and made good with similar modern paper.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘?Foliage, Branches and Rocks c.1799–1805 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-foliage-branches-and-rocks-r1178133, accessed 26 April 2024.