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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Group of Trees 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Group of Trees’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 71 Verso:
A Group of Trees 1805
D05600
Turner Bequest XC 71a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, prepared with a grey wash, 150 x 258 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. This is a very slight outline sketch, but is perhaps of the same or an adjacent group of slanting trees as seen in a view taken near the mouth of the River Brent on folio 81 verso of the sketchbook (D05612).

David Blayney Brown
August 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Group of Trees 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2007, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-group-of-trees-r1129915, accessed 26 April 2024.