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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Cloud Study 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Cloud Study’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
?Cloud Study 1824
D19586
Turner Bequest CCXVI 18
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Blue’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘18’ towards top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–18’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These gestural marks, annotated at top right with the word ‘Blue’, most likely constitute a sky study.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?Cloud Study 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-cloud-study-r1174374, accessed 15 February 2025.