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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Grenoble Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Village with Cloud 1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Village with Cloud’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Village with Cloud 1802
D04551
Turner Bequest LXXIV 58
Pencil and wash on paper, 220 x 283 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXIV 58’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The title ‘Village with Cloud’ was first given to this drawing by John Ruskin and is retained here pending closer identification of the subject.
Verso:
Blank, inscribed perhaps by a later hand in pencil ‘156’

David Blayney Brown
September 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Village with Cloud 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2011, 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-village-with-cloud-r1146416, accessed 09 May 2024.