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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Dieppe and Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Clouds and the Sun Rising or Setting over the Sea 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Clouds and the Sun Rising or Setting over the Sea’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 87 Verso:
Clouds and the Sun Rising or Setting over the Sea 1845
D35642
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 87
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rapid drawing shows the disk of the sun among clouds low over the sea, rising or setting. The even less coherent drawing on folio 88 recto opposite (D35644) perhaps shows another stage of the same event. See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the many slight coastal and shipping views and inscribed studies of clouds and the sun over the sea scattered through it.
The blank recto is inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘87’ and stamped in black ‘CCCLXI – 87’ at the bottom right. For numerous instances of blank, unaccessioned rectos in this sketchbook, see the technical notes in the Introduction.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Clouds and the Sun Rising or Setting over the Sea 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-clouds-and-the-sun-rising-or-setting-over-the-sea-r1184058, accessed 19 April 2024.