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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Hastings Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Landscape with Rain Clouds circa 1809-11

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Landscape with Rain Clouds’ circa 1809-11
Folio 37 Recto:
Landscape with Rain Clouds circa 1809–11
D07649
Turner Bequest CXI 37
Pencil on white wove paper, 88 x 110 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘sky murky at the ... | grey green shadow darkening the sky the light green | lighter than the sky smoke which contrastingly the | ... brightest G. ... Dark | Black. | prognostic of Rain’ above image
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘37’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXI 37’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Verso:
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David Blayney Brown
May 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Landscape with Rain Clouds c.1809–11’, catalogue entry, May 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/landscape-with-rain-clouds-r1131136, accessed 19 April 2024.