Joseph Mallord William Turner

Clouds

c.1799–1807

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Fonthill Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 337 × 433 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D02209
Turner Bequest XLVII 32

Catalogue entry

Finberg could not determine whether this sheet, used horizontally, shows mountains or clouds; it should possibly be viewed the other way up, as Ruskin seems to have thought. If so, the inscription would read ‘X7’. For his reference to the ‘Schaffhausen book’ see the sketchbook’s Introduction.

Technical notes:

For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 34, see the Introduction.

Verso:

Blank

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

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