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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sky with Distant View of Ostend 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sky with Distant View of Ostend’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 179 Verso:
Sky with Distant View of Ostend 1824
D19898
Turner Bequest CCXVI 173 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Blue [...]’, ‘[?Red zone]’ bottom left; ‘warm blue’ bottom centre; ‘Dun [...]’ top right; ‘[?fluke]’ far right centre towards top; ‘Light [?sky] [...] Blue’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is largely a sky study with swift jottings of cloud formations and notes on the colours and tones of light: ‘Dun’ or ‘Warm blue’ for example. Turner has produced a further study of the same sky on the folio opposite (Tate D19899; Turner Bequest CCXVI 174). Rendered in the distance is a diminutive profile of Ostend harbour, with the conical spire of the Peperbusse or St Peter’s Tower visible. Turner produced this sketch and that on Tate D19897; Turner Bequest CCXVI 173 as he approached the Flemish port on 7 September.
For other depictions of Ostend see Tate D12687, D29601, D30467, D30470, D30471, D30476, D30477, D30485, D30487, D30488, D30490, D30493, D30495, D30498; Turner Bequest CLIX 95a, CCXCVI 4, CCCIII 4a, 6, 6a, 9, 9a, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18a, 19a, 21.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sky with Distant View of 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-with-distant-view-of-ostend-r1174693, accessed 25 April 2024.