J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Colour Trials c.1798-9

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Recto:
Colour Trials c.1798–9
D01876
Turner Bequest XLIII 50
Watercolour and white chalk on blue laid paper prepared with a red-brown ground, 216 x 140 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘50’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLIII – 50’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There are a smear of brown colour and slight colour trials, presumably relating to the landscape study on folio 50 verso opposite (D01875; Turner Bequest XLIII 49a).
Technical notes:
The blue laid paper has been prepared with a red-brown ground.
Verso:
Blank, prepared with a red-brown ground.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Colour Trials c.1798–9 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-colour-trials-r1174076, accessed 26 April 2024.