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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of a Cloudy Sky c.1808-18

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of a Cloudy Sky’ c.1808-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
Study of a Cloudy Sky c.1808–18
D12154
Turner Bequest CLIV a 22
Pencil on white wove paper, 89 x 112 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘22’ bottom right (smudged)
Stamped in black ‘CLIV (a) – 22’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This cloud drawing is continued from folio 21 verso (D12153) and the recto of the subsequent torn stub (D40852), which masked the corresponding area of the present page nearest the gutter as Turner drew. 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.
To the right of the drawing and partly overlapping with it, is the following note in pencil, written with the page turned vertically:
 1 Rood 26 poles       21 
        20 £            
       D[...]  [?the Ex]  
Roods and poles are both measurements of area; the significance of the notes is as yet undetermined. There is another inscription featuring a ‘Rood’ on folio 28 recto (D12163; CLIV a 27).
Verso:
Blank

Matthew Imms
September 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Study of a Cloudy Sky c.1808–18 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-study-of-a-cloudy-sky-r1147571, accessed 11 May 2024.