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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > French Tour 1821 > Paris, Seine and Dieppe Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sunset 1821

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sunset’ 1821
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
Sunset 1821
D18529
Turner Bequest CCXI 3
Blue, black and orange watercolour on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXI – 3’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
One of only three watercolours in this sketchbook, this sky study depicts a sunset with a red sky and dark clouds. There is another, though slighter, sky study on folio 4 (Tate D18530; Turner Bequest CCXI 4) and a nude on folio 28 verso (Tate D18568; Turner Bequest CCXI 28a). In addition there is a sky study in blue watercolour on a page that once belonged to this sketchbook and has been cut in two. One half is now bound in the Mortlake and Pulborough sketchbook (Tate D18839; Turner Bequest CCXIII 90), while the other half is unbound (D40311).
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Thomas Ardill
March 2013

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Sunset 1821 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sunset-r1146225, accessed 25 April 2024.