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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > Eclipse Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Three-Quarters of Sun in Eclipse 1804

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three-Quarters of Sun in Eclipse’ 1804
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Verso:
Three-Quarters of Sun in Eclipse 1804
D05254
Turner Bequest LXXXV 5a
Black and white chalk on white wove paper prepared with a slatey brown wash, 166 x 112 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXXV 5a’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject continues on folio 6 (D05255). For the three-quarters eclipse see Introduction to the sketchbook and folios 3a and 4 (D05250, D05251).

David Blayney Brown
November 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Three-Quarters of Sun in Eclipse 1804 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2004, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-three-quarters-of-sun-in-eclipse-r1201969, accessed 22 November 2024.