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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Margate, London and Surrey c.1829-45 > Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Landscape with Trees and a Distant Spire, Probably in Kent c.1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Landscape with Trees and a Distant Spire, Probably in Kent’ c.1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Recto:
Landscape with Trees and a Distant Spire, Probably in Kent c.1830
D35783
Turner Bequest CCCLXIII 14
Pencil on white wove paper, 98 x 76 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘14’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXIII – 14’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned vertically, this landscape with trees beside a stream or path and a slender spire beyond a slope in the distance lacks the details to facilitate an identification, although the scene is likely somewhere in the vicinity of the sites in eastern Kent elsewhere in this sketchbook; see the Introduction. The building may be the church shown on folios 12 verso and 13 recto (D35780–D35781).

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Landscape with Trees and a Distant Spire, Probably in Kent c.1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-landscape-with-trees-and-a-distant-spire-probably-in-kent-r1183746, accessed 31 May 2024.