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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Wales 1798 > North Wales Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Bay or Lake and Hills under a Cloudy Sky 1798

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Bay or Lake and Hills under a Cloudy Sky’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 71 Verso:
A Bay or Lake and Hills under a Cloudy Sky 1798
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Turner Bequest XXXIX 66v
Pencil and grey wash on rough white laid printing paper washed with a pink ground, 170 x 266 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. In Gerald Wilkinson’s opinion this is ‘a very fresh, modern-looking drawing’; he notes the use of ‘“dry brush” work on the rough paper.’1

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Wilkinson 1972, p.67.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Bay or Lake and Hills under a Cloudy Sky 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, 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-bay-or-lake-and-hills-under-a-cloudy-sky-r1173659, accessed 18 April 2024.