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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > East Anglia, Sussex and Yorkshire 1824 > Brighton and Arundel Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sunrise (or Sunset) c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sunrise (or Sunset)’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Recto:
Sunrise (or Sunset) c.1824
D18332
Turner Bequest CCX 13
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 75 mm
Watermarked ‘Smith & [Allnutt] | 18 [22]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Light’ centre towards bottom left (inverted), ‘[?gold]’ bottom centre (inverted), ‘E[...] Light’ bottom left (inverted)
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘13’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCX 13’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook orientated in accordance with the foliation and orientated inversely, here Turner has rendered a sequence of sketches of the sky at sunrise or sunset. Some inscriptions have been dashed off relating to the colours and qualities of light perceived by Turner.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sunrise (or Sunset) c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sunrise-or-sunset-r1181217, accessed 25 April 2024.