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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cloud Study; Bridge; Figures and Boat; Buildings ?in Northern France 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cloud Study; Bridge; Figures and Boat; Buildings ?in Northern France’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
Cloud Study; Bridge; Figures and Boat; Buildings ?in Northern France 1824
D19582
Turner Bequest CCXVI 16
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Warm Clouds over Cold Sky’ | ‘Grey’ top; ‘Grey’, ‘Warm Yellow fresh’, ‘orange’ centre; ‘Barque’ right towards bottom; ‘Soldier fishing’ bottom right
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘16’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has recorded small cloud and sky studies, similar to those on the folio opposite (Tate D19581; Turner Bequest CCXVI 15a), as well as swift sketches of a bridge, a ‘barque’, two figures, and a ‘Soldier fishing’ before some buildings on the coast.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Cloud Study; Bridge; Figures and Boat; Buildings ?in Northern France 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-cloud-study-bridge-figures-and-boat-buildings-in-northern-r1174370, accessed 26 April 2024.