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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Group of Plants, ?including Bracken 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Group of Plants, ?including Bracken’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Verso:
A Group of Plants, ?including Bracken 1799
D02031
Turner Bequest XLVI 24a
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a pale buff ground, 130 x 79 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg suggests that this and folio 25 recto opposite (D02032) form a single subject,1 but they are in fact two separate studies, this one to be read vertically, and the other from the fore-edge side.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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Finberg 1909, I, p.115 with the two entries bracketed to one title.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Group of Plants, ?including Bracken 1799 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-group-of-plants-including-bracken-r1179890, accessed 25 April 2024.