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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > River Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Three White Poplars at Laleham c.1807

Image 1 of 2
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three White Poplars at Laleham’ c.1807
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Recto:
Three White Poplars at Laleham circa 1807
D05992
Turner Bequest XCVI 28
Pencil on white laid paper, 92 x 163 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Three Arbele Trees at | Laleham’ above image at right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘28’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XCVI 28’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For a double-spread sketch of Penton Hook near Laleham see folios 26 verso–27 (D05989–90) and for another perhaps extending the view further, folios 23 verso–24 (D05985–D05986).
The white poplar (populus alba) was brought to England from Holland together with its vernacular name ‘abele’. Some additional foliage, not from these three trees but from adjacent trees or bushes, extends on to folio 27 verso (D05991).

David Blayney Brown
October 2006

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Three White Poplars at Laleham c.1807 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2006, 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-three-white-poplars-at-laleham-r1130167, accessed 25 April 2024.