Joseph Mallord William Turner

Group of Trees

1805

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Thames, from Reading to Walton Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 259 × 368 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D05939
Turner Bequest XCV 35

Catalogue entry

This is a right-hand page from the sketchbook. Butlin and Joll compare the drawing to the oil sketch Willows beside a Stream (Tate N02706)1 but this is inconclusive. The location of these trees, presumably by the River Thames, is unknown. See also, from the same sketchbook, D05941
Turner Bequest XCV 37, perhaps drawn near Marlow.
1
Butlin and Joll 1984, p.118–9 no.172 (pl.172).
Verso:
Blank. Laid down.
David Blayney Brown
Febrary 2009

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