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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Landscape with Trees in the Foreground and Part of a Ruin in the Distance 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Landscape with Trees in the Foreground and Part of a Ruin in the Distance’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 65 Verso:
A Landscape with Trees in the Foreground and Part of a Ruin in the Distance 1801
D02565
Turner Bequest LIII 65a
Ink on white wove paper, 162 x 112 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 66 recto opposite (D02566). The fragment of a ruined building in the centre distance may indicate that this is one of the sequence of drawings that Turner made around Norham Castle; see under folio 42 verso (D02534).
This is the only drawing in the sketchbook to have been executed in pen and ink, and occurs in the middle of a group of blank pages, after which the book has been used inverted in relation to its current foliation, working in from the other end.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Landscape with Trees in the Foreground and Part of a Ruin in the Distance 1801 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-a-landscape-with-trees-in-the-foreground-and-part-of-a-ruin-r1178587, accessed 23 September 2024.