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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cloud Study; Landscape and Windmill; Hills and Clouds ?in Northern France 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cloud Study; Landscape and Windmill; Hills and Clouds ?in Northern France’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Verso:
Cloud Study; Landscape and Windmill; Hills and Clouds ?in Northern France 1824
D19581
Turner Bequest CCXVI 15 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Beautiful Cold Grey and | Pink Clouds before Sunrise’ top; ‘orange’ far right towards top; ‘one Streak of orange | all the rest grey’ bottom
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The first sketch is a record of the sky just before sunrise: a ‘Beautiful cold grey’ dotted with ‘Pink clouds’. Below it is a swiftly rendered view of a windmill on the coast. The final sketch is cloud study: the sky is ‘grey’ with the exception of a single ‘Streak of orange’. Similar studies are found on the folio opposite (Tate D19582; Turner Bequest CCXVI 16).

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Cloud Study; Landscape and Windmill; Hills and Clouds ?in Northern France 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2014, 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-cloud-study-landscape-and-windmill-hills-and-clouds-in-r1174369, accessed 18 April 2024.