Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Branches of a Fallen Tree

?1799

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Egyptian Details Sketchbook
Medium
Dimensions
Support: 83 × 166 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D03926
Turner Bequest LXVI 90

Catalogue entry

This drawing was made with the page turned horizontally; the sketch of a torn branch on folio 89 verso opposite (D40780) is probably a continuation of this subject. See also the studies on folios 87 recto, 88 recto and 89 recto (D03923–D03925). All of them may have been made on the Fonthill estate when Tuner was there in 1799, as discussed under D03923.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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