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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Tree and Distant Shipping 1793-4

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Tree and Distant Shipping’ 1793-4
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Tree and Distant Shipping 1793–4
D01881
Turner Bequest XLIV E
Pencil on white wove paper, 252 x 411 mm
Watermark ‘J WHATMAN’
Inscribed by in red ink ‘xliv.E’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLIV – E’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a slight and unfinished study which is stylistically close to, and perhaps connected with Turner’s work on, the distant view of Rochester (Tate D00158; Turner Bequest XV B) for a watercolour to be engraved.
Technical notes:
The sheet has been folded laterally approximately 20 mm from the top edge.
Verso:
Blank, dirt-stained; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Tree and Distant Shipping 1793–4 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-a-tree-and-distant-shipping-r1140305, accessed 21 November 2024.