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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Hastings Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Clouds c.1816-18

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Clouds’ c.1816-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Recto:
Clouds circa 1816–18
D10383
Turner Bequest CXXXIX 29
Pencil on white wove paper, 129 x 205 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘29’ bottom left, inverted and ‘315’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIX 29’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted and continued on the upper half of folio 28 verso (D10382), where the ‘setting sun’ appears in a separate sketch.

David Blayney Brown
May 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Clouds c.1816–18 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-clouds-r1131611, accessed 26 April 2024.