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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Group of Trees 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Group of Trees’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 181 Verso:
A Group of Trees 1801
D03622
Turner Bequest LIX 181a
Pencil on white wove paper, 156 x 92 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing is inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation. There is another study of trees on folio 182 verso (D03624). For Turner’s interest in trees during his 1801 Scottish tour, see the Introduction to the Scotch Lakes sketchbook (Tate; Turner Bequest LVI). However, these studies may have been made at about the same time as the canal drawings on folios 183 verso, 184 verso and 185 verso (D03626, D03628, D03630), that is, probably in Yorkshire.
The strongly tonal technique of these two drawings may be related to the experimental ‘Scottish Pencils’ sheets associated with this tour (Tate; Turner Bequest LVIII).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Group of Trees 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-group-of-trees-r1179760, accessed 26 April 2024.