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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > East Anglia, Sussex and Yorkshire 1824 > Brighton and Arundel Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Sunrise c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Sunrise’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 91 Verso:
?Sunrise c.1824
D18465
Turner Bequest CCX 86a
Pencil on white wove paper, 75 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘S[...]’ top centre towards left, ‘[...]’ centre left, ‘[?Sunrise]’ centre, ‘[...]’ rear towards left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has swiftly dashed off a sketch of the sky, or possibly a ‘sunrise’ (see D18463; Turner Bequest CCX 85a). The remaining annotations are illegible to this cataloguer.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?Sunrise 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-sunrise-r1181350, accessed 19 September 2024.