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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of Sky, possibly near Liège 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of Sky, possibly near Liège’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 153 Verso:
Study of Sky, possibly near Liège 1824
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Turner Bequest CCXVI 149 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘?to all [?flukings] of [?Red] [...] | with wash’ top (inverted); ‘[...] with grey | [?white] [...] wash [?on] | ‘[?Mother] in Liege’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These scrappy and slight jottings appear to be of clouds; the inscriptions may describe their colour and tone, though Turner’s handwriting is almost entirely illegible. The drawings and inscriptions are all produced with the sketchbook turned upside down.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Study of Sky, possibly near Liège 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-study-of-sky-possibly-near-liege-r1174644, accessed 16 April 2024.