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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Scots Pines with a Plain and Distant Mountains Beyond 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Verso:
Three Scots Pines with a Plain and Distant Mountains Beyond 1801
D03278
Turner Bequest LVII 1a
Pencil on white laid paper, 149 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 2 recto opposite (D03279). As Finberg noted,1 a ‘Scottish Pencil’ drawing of this subject is Tate D03435 (Turner Bequest LVIII 56).
There is another study of trees on the recto (D03277).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.151.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Three Scots Pines with a Plain and Distant Mountains Beyond 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-three-scots-pines-with-a-plain-and-distant-mountains-beyond-r1179476, accessed 25 April 2024.