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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Studies of Foliage 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Studies of Foliage’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Verso:
Two Studies of Foliage 1799
D02082
Turner Bequest XLVI 56a
Pencil on white wove paper, 79 x 130 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘D’ towards top left and ‘W’ towards top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These two sketches, made with the page turned horizontally and separated by a vertical line, may or may not have been drawn directly from nature. They may be related to his ideas for the large watercolour of Caernarvon Castle, North Wales, shown at the Royal Academy in 1800 (Tate D04164; Turner Bequest LXX M),1 though they are too slight to be confidently identified as elements in that work.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.329 no.263, pl.52.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Two Studies of Foliage 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-two-studies-of-foliage-r1179941, accessed 26 April 2024.