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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?A Clump of Thistles 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?A Clump of Thistles’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Recto:
?A Clump of Thistles 1799
D02032
Turner Bequest XLVI 25
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a pale buff ground, 79 x 130 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘25’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XLVI – 25’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg listed this along with folio 24 verso opposite (D02031) as a single design;1 they are in fact two separate studies, this one being read with the fore-edge as the base, the other upright.
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Finberg 1909, I, p.115 with the two entries bracketed to one title.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘?A Clump of Thistles 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-clump-of-thistles-r1179891, accessed 22 September 2024.