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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Cloudy Sky above a Mountain Valley 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Cloudy Sky above a Mountain Valley’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Recto:
A Cloudy Sky above a Mountain Valley 1801
D03289
Turner Bequest LVII 7
Pencil with white gouache on white cartridge paper prepared with a grey–buff ground, 149 x 118 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘7’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVII – 7’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 6 verso opposite (D03288). For its general setting, see under folio 4 verso (D03284). Finberg identifies this subject as ‘Loch Long and Ben Arthur’, associating it, like folio 3 recto (D03281), with the ‘Scottish Pencil’ Tate D03382 (Turner Bequest LVIII 3),1 but the connection is not entirely clear.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.151.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Cloudy Sky above a Mountain Valley 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-cloudy-sky-above-a-mountain-valley-r1179487, accessed 21 November 2024.