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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 6 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Cloudy Sky with a Distant Rainbow c.1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cloudy Sky with a Distant Rainbow’ c.1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Recto:
Cloudy Sky with a Distant Rainbow c.1816
D11606
Turner Bequest CXLIX 11
Pencil on white wove paper, 93 x 149 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil with several colour notes on the drawing, including ‘Light yellow’ bottom left, ‘blue’ and ‘yellow’ above
Inscribed in red ink ‘11’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXLIX 11’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this sketch there are cottage roofs at bottom right and a rainbow in the distance, right. For general notes on the series of unidentified subjects to which this sketch belongs see folio 2 recto (D11597).
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David Hill
October 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Cloudy Sky with a Distant Rainbow c.1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-cloudy-sky-with-a-distant-rainbow-r1143751, accessed 19 April 2024.