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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Sunset or Sunrise ?over Water c.1823-4

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Sunset or Sunrise ?over Water’ c.1823-4
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Verso:
A Sunset or Sunrise ?over Water c.1823–4
D40964
Watercolour on white wove paper, 98 x 162 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Not recorded in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Inventory,1 this is a slight continuation of a band of sky from the wash composition of the sunset or sunrise composition on folio 31 recto opposite (D17887).

Matthew Imms
December 2014

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.622.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Sunset or Sunrise ?over Water c.1823–4 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-sunset-or-sunrise-over-water-r1172600, accessed 25 April 2024.