'?Colour Trials', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

?Colour Trials

From Harvest Home Sketchbook

Turner Bequest LXXXVI

Date c.1807-10

MediumWatercolour on paper

Dimensionssupport: 258 x 370 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D40273

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 7 Verso:

?Colour Trials circa 1807–10

D40273

Watercolour on white wove paper, 258 x 370 mm

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

These trials of blue, green and buff watercolours might have related to a watercolour study on the facing leaf, which is now removed but of which the stub remains in the sketchbook. John Ruskin’s endorsement (inside the front cover) states that a leaf was cut out.

David Blayney Brown
December 2009

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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

Harvest Home Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest