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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Group of Houses with a Tree 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Group of Houses with a Tree’ 1797 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
A Group of Houses with a Tree 1797
D40567
Pencil on white wove paper, 210 x 270 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXIV’ top left, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this very rough and schematic sketch was not recorded by Finberg.1

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.73.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Group of Houses with a Tree 1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-group-of-houses-with-a-tree-r1150163, accessed 24 April 2024.