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 84 Recto:
View along a Broad River or Estuary, with a Cloudy Sky 1798
D01602
Turner Bequest XL 82
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Watermark ‘1794 | J Whatman’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘82’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XL – 82’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing continues on folio 83 verso opposite (D01601; Turner Bequest XL 81a), under which the subject is discussed.

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-r1173841, accessed 19 April 2024.