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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Sunset 1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Sunset’ 1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 40 Recto:
A Sunset 1809
D07583
Turner Bequest CX 40
Pencil on white laid paper, 116 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘CX 40’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CX 40’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continued on folio 39 verso (D07582), for which see note. In addition to Turner’s inscription ‘Smoke like the clouds’ on 39 verso, this leaf is extensively annotated with notes on colour and effect. Below the skyline across the foreground is written, in pencil, ‘Orpiment and Blood. Blue clouds yellow edge’, and within the sky from left to right ‘Golden’, ‘Warm’, ‘Yellow’, ‘Grey’ (three times), ‘Red’, ‘Blue’, ‘Grey Rain’ and ‘light redish colord Clouds | yet watery’
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David Blayney Brown
August 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Sunset 1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2009, 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/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-sunset-r1135699, accessed 25 April 2024.