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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Sun behind Clouds c.1799

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Verso:
The Sun behind Clouds c.1799
D02319
Turner Bequest XLIX 68a
Black chalk on white laid paper, 121 x 150 mm
Part watermark ‘1799’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study was made with the page turned horizontally. Compare folio 69 verso (D02321).

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Sun behind Clouds c.1799 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-the-sun-behind-clouds-r1174191, accessed 29 March 2024.