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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Broken Branch of a Tree ?1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Broken Branch of a Tree’ ?1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 89 Verso:
The Broken Branch of a Tree ?1799
D40780
Pencil and white chalk on blue laid paper, 83 x 166 mm
Made with the page turned horizontally, this is probably a continuation of the drawing on folio 90 recto opposite (D03926). It was not listed separately in Finberg’s Inventory.1
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Technical notes:
There is some white chalk offsetting from folio 90 recto opposite (D03926).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Broken Branch of a Tree ?1799 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-the-broken-branch-of-a-tree-r1180165, accessed 19 September 2024.