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 72 Recto:
Study of a Cloudy Sky c.1808–18
D12226
Turner Bequest CLIV a 71
Pencil on white wove paper, 89 x 112 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘yelw’ towards centre left and ‘Blue [?grey]’ toward stop right
Stamped in black ‘CLIV (a) – 71’ top left, upside down
 
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. This study, inverted relative to the foliation, continues on the half-torn folio 71 verso opposite, and from there across the outer part of folio 70 verso (D12225, D12224; CLIV a 70a, 69a).
Technical notes:
There seems to be no sign of John Ruskin’s usual red ink foliation; there are such numbers on most of the earlier pages (see the Introduction to the sketchbook).

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-r1147644, accessed 23 September 2024.