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 70 Verso:
Study of a Cloudy Sky c.1808–18
D12224
Turner Bequest CLIV a 69a
Pencil on white wove paper, 89 x 112 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘warm’ top right, and ‘yellow grey’ and ‘Dark grey | upon warm clouds’ centre right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As set out under folio 7 verso (D12134), there are nearly thirty pages of cloud studies in this sketchbook, some, as here, being annotated with colours and other observations. The present sketch, inverted relative to the foliation, only occupies the right-hand half of the page, but it forms part of the double-page drawing across folios 71 verso and 72 (D12225, D12226; CLIV a 70a, 71), as half of folio 71 was evidently missing before Turner began the sketch and continues straight across the torn edge onto this page.

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-r1147641, accessed 23 September 2024.