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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches of Birds 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Recto:
Three Sketches of Birds 1819
D16390
Turner Bequest CLXXXIX 59
Pencil and grey watercolour wash with traces of red and blue watercolour on white wove ‘Valleyfield’ paper, 229 x 368 mm
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘clxxxix . 59’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXIX 59’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sheet is blank apart from three small sketches of birds, one of which appears to be a duck, at the bottom centre of the page. Like many drawings within the Rome C. Studies sketchbook the study has been executed in pencil over grey watercolour wash.
Verso:
Blank except for traces of watercolour.

Nicola Moorby
October 2009

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Three Sketches of Birds 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2009, 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-sketches-of-birds-r1132447, accessed 28 March 2024.