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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Trees by a Stream; Buildings among Hills 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Trees by a Stream; Buildings among Hills’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 40 Recto:
Trees by a Stream; Buildings among Hills 1835
D30372
Turner Bequest CCCI 40
Pencil on cream wove paper, 159 x 100 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?Ratehous] – [...]’ top centre; ‘Willow | Poplars’ top right
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘40’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCI – 40’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts ‘Willow’ and ‘Poplar’ trees by a stream, along with a view of buildings situated within a hilly landscape (this view is rendered with the sketchbook turned upside down). The inscription ‘[?Ratehous] – [...]’ may refer to ‘Rathaus’ or ‘town hall’ in German.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Trees by a Stream; Buildings among Hills 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-trees-by-a-stream-buildings-among-hills-r1186756, accessed 19 April 2024.