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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sky at Ostend 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sky at Ostend’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 180 Verso:
Sky at Ostend 1824
D19900
Turner Bequest CCXVI 174 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Warm R[...] [...]’ top left; ‘Cold Cloud | Yel Light’ left centre; ‘extraordinary sky before arrival at Ostend’ | ‘Blue’ bottom left; ‘Dun B’ centre towards top left; ‘Pink’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a record of aspects of an ‘extraordinary sky’ which Turner observed as he approached Ostend on 7 September 1824 (see also Tate D19898–D19899, D19901; Turner Bequest CCXVI 173a–174, 175). There are a few dashed-off notes on the tone and colours of light, such as: ‘Cold Cloud’; ‘Pink’ and ‘Yel[low] Light’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sky at 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-at-ostend-r1174695, accessed 21 September 2024.