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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Sun Breaking through Clouds 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Sun Breaking through Clouds’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Verso:
The Sun Breaking through Clouds 1799
D02090
Turner Bequest XLVI 60a
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a pale blue-grey ground, 79 x 130 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this is a slight note. Turner made at least two works at this time in which a burst of sunlight through cloud is a leading motif: the perhaps unfinished large-scale study of Llanberis and Snowdon (Tate D03642; Turner Bequest LX a A), and the finished watercolour of Pembroke Castle: Clearing up of a Thunder-Storm, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1806 (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto).1

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.331 no.281, reproduced.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Sun Breaking through Clouds 1799 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-sun-breaking-through-clouds-r1179949, accessed 26 April 2024.