A landscape with an old oak (or beech) tree
This watercolour relates to a group that Turner painted at or near Norbury Park, Surrey in the mid seventeen-nineties. The young artist had been commissioned to paint an image of the fern house at Norbury by William Lock (1732–1810) and exhibited a related watercolor at the Royal Academy in 1798. Lock, himself a keen amateur artist, had employed Thomas Sandby to build Norbury Park in the late 1770s and commissioned George Barret to carry out the decorations. A prominent single old large tree stands at the center of the drawing in an open park, with additional trees beyond. A windmill is seen in the center distance, below the branches with sheep lying at the edge of the grass.
Artwork Details
- Title: A landscape with an old oak (or beech) tree
- Artist: Formerly attributed to Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, London 1775–1851 London)
- Date: ca. 1796
- Medium: Watercolor over graphite
- Dimensions: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 11 7/8 in. (19.1 × 30.2 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2020
- Object Number: 2021.16.60
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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