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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sky ?in Northern France 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sky ?in Northern France’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Sky ?in Northern France 1824
D19587
Turner Bequest CCXVI 18 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Blue’, top left; ‘Grey’ top centre; ‘Blue’, inscribed twice at centre towards right and towards left; ‘Yellow’, ‘Grey’ bottom centre and bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has produced rough sketches of the sky, annotating the jottings with the colours of the light and clouds. Similar studies are found on Tate D19585–D19586; Turner Bequest CCXVI 17a–18.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sky ?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-sky-in-northern-france-r1174375, accessed 25 April 2024.