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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1813 > Chemistry and Apuleia Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of Rain Clouds over a Wooded Landscape c.1813

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of Rain Clouds over a Wooded Landscape’ c.1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
Study of Rain Clouds over a Wooded Landscape c.1813
D09893
Turner Bequest CXXXV 3
Pencil on white wove paper, 88 x 113 mm
Part watermark ‘C Wil | 18’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Light’ left of centre and ‘Blue | Light’ right of centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXV – 3’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing continues on folio 2 verso opposite (D09892), from which a dark blot is offset at the bottom right. Turner’s note to the left comes below two diagonal strokes, presumably indicating sunbeams through a gap in the clouds. There is a similar drawing on folio 2 recto (D09891). There are drawings in the Bristol area beginning on folio 3 verso (D09894), so it may be that these studies were also made there or nearby.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Study of Rain Clouds over a Wooded Landscape c.1813 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, 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-rain-clouds-over-a-wooded-landscape-r1147848, accessed 23 April 2024.