Joseph Mallord William Turner

Silver Birch Stems, Rocks and Foliage

1801

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
The ‘Scottish Pencils’
Medium
Gouache and graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 340 x 480 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D03428
Turner Bequest LVIII 49

Catalogue entry

Finberg refers to ‘broken firs’,1 but the trees appear to be birches. There is another landscape drawing on the verso (D41442).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.158.

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