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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Dieppe and Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Clouds over the Channel 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Clouds over the Channel’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Verso:
Clouds over the Channel 1845
D35504
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 9a
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
Watermark ‘W King | 1842’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the rapid main sketch shows clouds over the sea or a low coastal horizon. See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the many slight coastal views and studies of clouds and the sun over the sea scattered through it.
At the right is a very slight landscape, apparently made with the page turned vertically and consisting of a few horizontal lines evoking the sea or a coastline, with a mark or brief inscription in the sky. Compare the equally slight studies on folio 10 recto opposite (D35505).

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Clouds over the Channel 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-clouds-over-the-channel-r1183929, accessed 25 April 2024.