'Sky', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Sky

From Lowther Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CXIII

Date 1809

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 83 x 114 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D07864

Turner Bequest CXIII 7

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 7 Recto:

Sky 1809

D07864
Turner Bequest CXIII 7

Pencil on white wove paper, 83 x 114 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘7’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXIII 7’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Finberg’s title appears to be right, although the sketch is very slight and rubbed; the subject continues on the stub of the preceding leaf, one of three torn from the sketchbook between this and folio 6.

David Blayney Brown
July 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

Lowther Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest