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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of Sky c.1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 92 Recto:
Study of Sky c.1824
D18466
Turner Bequest CCX 87
Pencil on white wove paper, 75 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Dark Blue’ top centre, ‘Light Blue’ centre, ‘Pink’ centre towards bottom left, ‘Soft | [?Lavender]’ bottom left, ‘Dark [...]’ bottom centre, ‘[...]’ bottom right
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘87’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCX 87’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has swiftly dashed off a sketch of the sky, annotating it with the colour notes ‘Dark’ and ‘Light Blue’ and ‘Pink’ (see D18463; Turner Bequest CCX 85a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Study of Sky 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-study-of-sky-r1181351, accessed 28 March 2024.