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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > France and Folkestone Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings and Trees c.1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings and Trees’ c.1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
Buildings and Trees c.1826
D24111
Turner Bequest CCLVI 3
Pencil on white laid paper, 104 x 158 mm
Partial watermark of a crown and laurels
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘3’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black CCLVI – 3’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a loose study of buildings and trees. There is no distinguishing landmark to identify this scene although Tate curator Ian Warrell has located some of the sketches in this volume to the region around Dover, and also Calais and Beauvais.1 The two tiers of dormer windows on the central structure suggest a Northern French rather than an English location.

John Chu
July 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.156.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Buildings and Trees c.1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-buildings-and-trees-r1185404, accessed 27 April 2024.