Joseph Mallord William Turner

Three ?Belgian Landscapes and Sky Studies

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
D19865
Turner Bequest CCXVI 155 a

Catalogue entry

Produced with the sketchbook turned upside down, here Turner dashes-off three slight sketches of landscape and skies on a road, possibly between Ghent and Bruges. He makes note of a ‘red’ and ‘blue’ colour in the topography and clouds.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

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