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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Vale of Heathfield Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Trees by the Moat of Bodiam Castle ?1810

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Trees by the Moat of Bodiam Castle’ ?1810
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Verso:
Trees by the Moat of Bodiam Castle ?1810
D10222
Turner Bequest CXXXVII 10a
Pencil on white wove paper, 181 x 228 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted.
For Bodiam Castle in this sketchbook, see notes to folio 7 verso (D10214; Turner Bequest CXXXVII 6a). As Finberg observed, this slight outline of trees by the moat extends the view on folio 12 verso (D10224; Turner Bequest CXXXVII 11a) to the right.

David Blayney Brown
March 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Trees by the Moat of Bodiam Castle ?1810 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-trees-by-the-moat-of-bodiam-castle-r1131263, accessed 17 July 2024.