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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of a Cloudy Sky c.1808-18

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of a Cloudy Sky’ c.1808-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 71 Verso:
Study of a Cloudy Sky c.1808–18
D12225
Turner Bequest CLIV a 70a
Pencil on white wove paper, 89 x 66 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Blue in Dark [...]’ along top edge and ‘Blue’ centre left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As set out under folio 7 verso (D12134), there are nearly thirty pages of cloud studies in this sketchbook, some, as here, being annotated with colours and other observations. This page was evidently already half torn away when Turner began a double-page sketch, inverted relative to the foliation, which continues conventionally across folio 72 recto opposite (D12226; CLIV a 71) but also to the right across the right-hand half of folio 70 verso (D12224; CLIV a 69a).

Matthew Imms
September 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Study of a Cloudy Sky c.1808–18 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-study-of-a-cloudy-sky-r1147643, accessed 19 April 2024.