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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Harewood: A Stand of Trees in the Park, with a Distant Tower 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Harewood: A Stand of Trees in the Park, with a Distant Tower’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Harewood: A Stand of Trees in the Park, with a Distant Tower 1797
D02389
Turner Bequest LI V
Pencil on white wove paper, 281 x 422 mm
Watermark ‘WHATMAN’
Inscribed in red ink ‘V’ bottom left
Stamped in black ‘LI – V’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of a series of pencil studies made around Harewood House.
Technical notes:
The sheet is somewhat irregular, with the top edge sloping down to the left.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Harewood: A Stand of Trees in the Park, with a Distant Tower 1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-harewood-a-stand-of-trees-in-the-park-with-a-distant-tower-r1150311, accessed 26 April 2024.