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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of Sky 1821

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of Sky’ 1821
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of Sky 1821
D40311
Blue watercolour on paper, 113 x 79 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCLXIII (a) 4’ bottom centre
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study in blue watercolour of a sky is half of an image, the other part of which is bound in the Mortlake and Pulborough sketchbook. There are two further watercolour sky studies in the Paris, Seine and Dieppe sketchbook (Tate D18529 and D18530; Turner Bequest CCXI 3, 4), which the present image can therefore be associated with.
The recto is D25519 (Turner Bequest CCLXIII a 4).

Thomas Ardill
March 2013

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Part of Sky 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-part-of-sky-r1146355, accessed 25 April 2024.