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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View along a Broad River or Estuary, with a Cloudy Sky 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View along a Broad River or Estuary, with a Cloudy Sky’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 83 Verso:
View along a Broad River or Estuary, with a Cloudy Sky 1798
D01601
Turner Bequest XL 81a
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘12’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘XL – 81 a’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 84 recto opposite (D01602; Turner Bequest XL 82). This is probably another of the sequence of slight sketches of scenery in south and west Wales that recurs throughout this book.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View along a Broad River or Estuary, with 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-view-along-a-broad-river-or-estuary-with-a-cloudy-sky-r1173840, accessed 20 April 2024.