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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Cloud Sketch 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Cloud Sketch’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 153 Recto:
?Cloud Sketch 1824
D19850
Turner Bequest CCXVI 149
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘smith & [allnut] | 18[22]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[...] of Long Dark | Clouds [?empty sky] [...] | [...] one’ top right; [?wh...] [?the] [...]’ bottom left; ‘[?which] [...] [?Dark]’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘149’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–149’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This scrappy and slight jotting appears to be of clouds; the inscriptions may describe their colour and tone, though Turner’s handwriting is almost entirely illegible.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?Cloud Sketch 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-sketch-r1174643, accessed 23 September 2024.