'Clouds', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Clouds

From Hastings Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CXXXIX

Date c.1816-18

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 129 x 205 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D10383

Turner Bequest CXXXIX 29

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 29 Recto:

Clouds circa 1816–18

D10383
Turner Bequest CXXXIX 29

Pencil on white wove paper, 129 x 205 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘29’ bottom left, inverted and ‘315’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIX 29’ top left, inverted

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Drawn with the sketchbook inverted and continued on the upper half of folio 28 verso (D10382), where the ‘setting sun’ appears in a separate sketch.

David Blayney Brown
May 2011

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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 1810s

Hastings Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest