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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Tree 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Tree’ 1801 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover:
A Tree 1801
D40639
Pencil on white laid paper, 149 x 118 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?like E ...]’ top right
Blind–stamped with Turner Bequest monogram top left
Inscribed by later hands in ink and pencil (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed in pencil ‘LVII’ top right
Stamped in black ‘LVII’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a very slight sketch, apparently part of the drawing on folio 1 recto opposite (D03277). The fragmentary inscription is not part of the Executors’ endorsement noted below, and seems to be in Turner’s hand, but is indecipherable.
Across the top of the page is the endorsement of the Executors of the Turner Bequest, Henry Scott Trimmer, Charles Turner, Charles Lock Eastlake and John Prescott Knight, in ink ‘No. 234. Contains | 31 Leaves.. Pencil & Colod. Sketches – | H. S. Trimmer | C Turner’ and in pencil ‘C.L.E.’ and ‘JPK’.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Tree 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-a-tree-r1179474, accessed 26 April 2024.