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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Scotland 1801-10 > Scotch Lakes Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Trees, ?along the Bank of the Tay at Dunkeld 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Trees, ?along the Bank of the Tay at Dunkeld’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 116 Verso:
Trees, ?along the Bank of the Tay at Dunkeld 1801
D03137
Turner Bequest LVI 114a
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Dunkeld’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This fragmentary sketch is apparently the continuation of a drawing on another opening, possibly that on folios 117 verso–118 recto (D03139–D03140; Turner Bequest LVI 115a–116), which is inscribed ‘Dunkeld’; but the two do not match very convincingly, and the link may actually be with the drawing on folios 127 verso–128 recto (D03159–D03160; Turner Bequest LVI 125a–126).
The inscription on the present page is in the same style of script as that on folio 83 verso (D03073; Turner Bequest LVI 81a). Both have the appearance of having been added at the time the drawings were made rather than (as with the majority in this sketchbook) at a later date.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Trees, ?along the Bank of the Tay at Dunkeld 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-trees-along-the-bank-of-the-tay-at-dunkeld-r1179332, accessed 20 April 2024.