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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Meuse-Mosel, Luxembourg and Northern ... > Rivers Meuse and Moselle Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sky Study ?between Bruges and Ostend 1824

Image 1 of 2
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sky Study ?between Bruges and Ostend’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 177 Recto:
Sky Study ?between Bruges and Ostend 1824
D19893
Turner Bequest CCXVI 171
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Light’ top left towards centre, ‘Blue’ top right towards centre; ‘Yellow’ centre right
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘171’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–171’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered with loose and free line, this sky study may have been taken as Turner journeyed from Bruges to Ostend. The artist has made note of the ‘Blue’ and ‘Yellow’ coloured ‘Light’. A similar sketch is shown on Tate D19894; Turner Bequest CCXVI 171 a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sky Study ?between Bruges and Ostend 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-sky-study-between-bruges-and-ostend-r1174688, accessed 25 April 2024.