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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Trees on a Steep Slope 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Trees on a Steep Slope’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
First Flyleaf, Verso:
Trees on a Steep Slope 1801
D40730
Pencil on white wove paper, 195 x 127 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight sketch may have been made when Turner was at Roslin, making drawings in a similarly rapid mode; for the main sequence of them see folios 61 verso–75 verso (D02901–D02924) at the other end of the book.
The recto of the leaf is blank and has not been assigned a Tate accession number.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Trees on a Steep Slope 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-trees-on-a-steep-slope-r1179000, accessed 25 April 2024.