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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Trees and a Winding Road 1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Trees and a Winding Road’ 1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 82 Verso:
Trees and a Winding Road 1809
D07841
Turner Bequest CXII 82a
Pencil on white wove paper, 107 x 180 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Gypsy’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. A similar drawing, with inscription, is on folio 83 verso of the sketchbook (D07843). In both cases Finberg’s title was based on a misreading of the inscription as ‘Cypress’ but the shape of the trees is quite different and Turner’s note must refer instead to a figure or figures that he has not actually drawn. Gypsy communities were common in Sussex.
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David Blayney Brown
June 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Trees and a Winding Road 1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-trees-and-a-winding-road-r1135795, accessed 16 April 2024.