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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sea and Sky c.1835-40

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sea and Sky’ c.1835-40
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
Sea and Sky c.1835–40
D27400
Turner Bequest CCLXXIX a 18
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil with various indecipherable notes and three lines of text (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘17’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLXXIX (a) – 17’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The studies of maritime vistas on this page are typical of the subjects which fill this volume. For more information, see the sketchbook Introduction. Three semi-decipherable lines of colour notes in the centre of the page appear to read, ‘Pink Cloud charged in cold Bluish in Meadow ¦Cold Pink going to Purple ¦Pink to Blue and Purple’.

John Chu
February 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Sea and Sky c.1835–40 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-sea-and-sky-r1181539, accessed 18 September 2024.