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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Work for Earls Egremont and Lonsdale ... > Lowther Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sky 1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sky’ 1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Recto:
Sky 1809
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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
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

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Sky 1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-sky-r1135819, accessed 26 April 2024.