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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Group of Trees by a Stream c.1816

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Group of Trees by a Stream’ c.1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
Group of Trees by a Stream c.1816
D11613
Turner Bequest CXLIX 18
Pencil on white wove paper, 93 x 149 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘18’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXLIX 18’ bottom, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this sketch, a large building is silhouetted against the light beyond a stand of trees. The subject might seem related in spirit to Turner’s designs for his Liber Studiorum compositions of landscape1 or to his studies on the Thames,2 but the exact locality here has yet to be identified. For general notes on the series of unidentified subjects to which this sketch belongs see folio 2 recto (D11597).
1
See Gillian Forrester, ‘Liber Studiorum’, in Evelyn Joll, Martin Butlin and Luke Herrmann (eds.), The Oxford Companion to J.M.W. Turner, Oxford 2001, pp.166–9.
2
See David Hill, ‘Thames Sketches, 1805’, in Oxford Companion, pp.333–6.
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David Hill
October 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Group of Trees by a Stream c.1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-group-of-trees-by-a-stream-r1143758, accessed 25 April 2024.