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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sky Study ?between Bruges and Ostend 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sky Study ?between Bruges and Ostend’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 177 Verso:
Sky Study ?between Bruges and Ostend 1824
D19894
Turner Bequest CCXVI 171 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Blue’ centre towards left; ‘2’ | ‘yellow’ centre towards bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered with loose and free line, this sky study may have been taken as Turner journeyed from Bruges to Ostend. The artist has made note of the ‘Blue’ and ‘Yellow’ coloured light. A similar sketch is shown on Tate D19893; Turner Bequest CCXVI 171.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sky Study ?between Bruges and Ostend 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-sky-study-between-bruges-and-ostend-r1174689, accessed 26 April 2024.