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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Broad Landscape with a Sunset Sky c.1799-1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Broad Landscape with a Sunset Sky’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 106 Recto:
A Broad Landscape with a Sunset Sky c.1799–1802
D04123
Turner Bequest LXIX 107
Ink and gouache on blue laid paper, 135 x 210 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘107’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXIX-107’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this is one of several broadly drawn sky studies in this book; see also folios 127 verso and 128 recto (D04146, D04147; Turner Bequest LXIX 128a, 129).
Verso:
Blank; offset from folio 107 recto opposite (D04124; Turner Bequest LXIX 108); brown ink spots. Inscribed in pencil ‘758’.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Broad Landscape with a Sunset Sky c.1799–1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-broad-landscape-with-a-sunset-sky-r1178002, accessed 25 April 2024.