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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Albano, Nemi, Rome Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Studies of Trees and Buildings, ?near Frascati 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Studies of Trees and Buildings, ?near Frascati’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 82 Recto:
Four Studies of Trees and Buildings, ?near Frascati 1819
D15452
Turner Bequest CLXXXII 81
Pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 113 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘81’ top left, ascending left-hand edge and ‘301’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXII 81’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The woods and buildings in these four sketches are too imprecise to identify but like the landscape scenes on the previous page may possibly represent trees and villas near Frascati, see folio 81 verso (D15451; Turner Bequest CLXXXII 80a.

Nicola Moorby
May 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Four Studies of Trees and Buildings, ?near Frascati 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2008, 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-four-studies-of-trees-and-buildings-near-frascati-r1132747, accessed 19 April 2024.