'A Stormy Sky', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

A Stormy Sky

From River Sketchbook

Turner Bequest XCVI

Date c.1807

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 92 x 163 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D05963

Turner Bequest XCVI 3

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 3 Recto:

A Stormy Sky circa 1807

D05963
Turner Bequest XCVI 3

Pencil on white laid paper, 92 x 163 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Sunny at the bottom, Grey stormy and misty at top’ below image
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XCVI 3’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Other sky studies are on folios 4 and 10 of this sketchbook (D05964, D05970). In so far as these depict land or horizon at all, they appear to be drawn in open country rather than on the bank of the Thames so might derive from the expedition to Hertfordshire when Turner used this book rather than from his spells of residence at Hammersmith (see Introduction).

Verso:

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David Blayney Brown
October 2006

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.

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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sketchbooks

1802-18 Academician and professor

Sketchbooks from the 1800s

River Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest