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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Landscape and Cloud Study ?in Northern France 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Landscape and Cloud Study ?in Northern France’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Landscape and Cloud Study ?in Northern France 1824
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Turner Bequest CCXVI 17 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Blue’ top centre towards left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This roughly rendered sketch shows a landscape with trees and a tower below a ‘blue’ sky filled with mushrooming cloud.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Landscape and Cloud Study ?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-landscape-and-cloud-study-in-northern-france-r1174373, accessed 26 April 2024.