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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Trees above Lake Nemi 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Trees above Lake Nemi’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Verso:
Trees above Lake Nemi 1819
D15564
Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 5 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 197 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains sections of two landscape drawings of Lake Nemi. On the right-hand side is part of the composition from folio 6 (D15565), whilst on the left is part of the composition from the following sheet, folio 6 verso (D15566). Turner has folded the page back in order to extend the sketch onto the underlying leaf.

Nicola Moorby
April 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Trees above Lake Nemi 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2010, 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-above-lake-nemi-r1138026, accessed 18 December 2024.