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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Architectural and Other Subjects c.1797 ... > Fonthill Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Clouds c.1799-1807

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Clouds’ c.1799-1807
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Clouds c.1799–1807
D02209
Turner Bequest XLVII 32
Pencil on white wove paper, 337 x 469 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman 1794’
Inscribed by Turner ‘[?2X]’ top centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in pencil ‘Out of Schaffhausen book JR’ top left, upside down
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram below right of centre
Stamped in black ‘XLVII 32’ top left, upside down
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg could not determine whether this sheet, used horizontally, shows mountains or clouds; it should possibly be viewed the other way up, as Ruskin seems to have thought. If so, the inscription would read ‘X7’. For his reference to the ‘Schaffhausen book’ see the sketchbook’s Introduction.
Technical notes:
For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 34, see the Introduction.
Verso:
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Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Clouds c.1799–1807 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-clouds-r1174252, accessed 18 April 2024.