Joseph Mallord William Turner

Cloud Study; Landscape and Windmill; Hills and Clouds ?in Northern France

1824

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Rivers Meuse and Moselle Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 118 × 78 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D19581
Turner Bequest CCXVI 15 a

Catalogue entry

The first sketch is a record of the sky just before sunrise: a ‘Beautiful cold grey’ dotted with ‘Pink clouds’. Below it is a swiftly rendered view of a windmill on the coast. The final sketch is cloud study: the sky is ‘grey’ with the exception of a single ‘Streak of orange’. Similar studies are found on the folio opposite (Tate D19582; Turner Bequest CCXVI 16).

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2014

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