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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > French Tour 1821 > Paris, Seine and Dieppe Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sky 1821

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sky’ 1821
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
Sky 1821
D18530
Turner Bequest CCXI 4
Blue and yellow watercolour on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘4’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXI – 4’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rather slight sky study is one of only three pages in which watercolour was used in this sketchbook. There is a study of a sunset on folio 3 (Tate D18529; Turner Bequest CCXI 3), and a nude on folio 28 verso (Tate D18568; Turner Bequest CCXI 28a).

Thomas Ardill
March 2013

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Sky 1821 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sky-r1146226, accessed 20 May 2024.