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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Studies of Skies on the Sussex Coast c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Studies of Skies on the Sussex Coast’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Studies of Skies on the Sussex Coast c.1824
D18449
Turner Bequest CCX 78a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 75 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘yellow’, ‘Blue’, ‘[?Warm Red]’, ‘yellow’, ‘Black Horse’ top left to right, ‘Blue’, ‘Blue’, ‘yel’, ‘Blue’, ‘W’, ‘WR’, ‘Blue’ rear left to right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has rendered a series of cursory sky studies, most likely taken as he explored the River Arun and the coast near Arundel in West Sussex. The English Channel and the coastal town of Littlehampton can be seen from Arundel Castle (see Tate D18419; Turner Bequest CCX 63). The sky studies are annotated with various colour notes: ‘yellow’, ‘Blue’, ‘[?Warm Red]’, ‘W[hite]’; Turner has also inscribed ‘Black Horse’ in the uppermost view where the animal grazes by the river at right.
The sketches have been produced with the book turned upside down.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Studies of Skies on the Sussex Coast c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-studies-of-skies-on-the-sussex-coast-r1181334, accessed 19 April 2024.