Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Study of a Cloudy Sky c.1808–18
Pencil on white wove paper, 89 x 37 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Blue Grey’ below centre
This irregular stub is not mentioned in Finberg’s Turner Bequest
Inventory,
1 The drawing of clouds on folios 21 verso and 23 recto (D12153, D12154) continues across it, so the rest of the leaf was presumably torn out beforehand. As set out under folio 7 verso (D12134), there are nearly thirty pages of cloud studies in this sketchbook, some annotated with colours, as here, and other observations.
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856