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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Silver Birch Stems, Rocks and Foliage 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Silver Birch Stems, Rocks and Foliage’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Silver Birch Stems, Rocks and Foliage 1801
D03428
Turner Bequest LVIII 49
Pencil and gouache on white wove paper prepared with a grey–buff wash, 186 x 275 mm
Stamped in black ‘LVIII – 49’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg refers to ‘broken firs’,1 but the trees appear to be birches. There is another landscape drawing on the verso (D41442).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.158.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Silver Birch Stems, Rocks and Foliage 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-silver-birch-stems-rocks-and-foliage-r1179828, accessed 26 April 2024.