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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Marine subjects c.1803-14 > Spithead Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner An Inn, with Trees 1807

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘An Inn, with Trees’ 1807
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66 Recto:
An Inn, with Trees 1807
D06596
Turner Bequest C 61
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 118 x 187 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘61’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘C 61’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A similar view of a wide road into a village, with an inn sign hanging from a tree, is on folio 67 of the sketchbook (D06597; Turner Bequest C 62). The sketches must have been made on the Portsmouth road, like the other rural scenes in the book.
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Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘15’ top left, inverted

David Blayney Brown
May 2006

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘An Inn, with Trees 1807 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-an-inn-with-trees-r1139130, accessed 20 April 2024.