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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Stormy Sky c.1823-4

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Stormy Sky’ c.1823-4
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Verso:
A Stormy Sky c.1823–4
D40963
Watercolour on white wove paper, 98 x 162 mm
Watermark ‘1821’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Not recorded in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Inventory,1 this is a slight, inconsequential continuation from the wash composition of a dramatic sky on folio 28 recto opposite (D17883).

Matthew Imms
December 2014

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.622.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Stormy Sky c.1823–4 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-stormy-sky-r1172595, accessed 22 September 2024.