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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings ?at Ghent; Study of Sky 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings ?at Ghent; Study of Sky’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 158 Verso:
Buildings ?at Ghent; Study of Sky 1824
D19861
Turner Bequest CCXVI 153 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Grey Clouds on a [?Gold] Sky’ bottom left, descending
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner jots down a slight and undeveloped profile of buildings, including a steeple with a distinctive teardrop-shaped dome (see also Tate D19858; Turner Bequest CCXVI 152). The location may be Ghent in Belgium. There is also a small horizontal sky study which is squared-off at bottom left. Turner has inscribed the sky view with ‘Grey Clouds on a [?Gold] Sky’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Buildings ?at Ghent; Study of Sky 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-buildings-at-ghent-study-of-sky-r1174654, accessed 27 April 2024.