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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Clouds over a Hilly Landscape c.1800-1

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Clouds over a Hilly Landscape’ c.1800-1
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Recto:
Clouds over a Hilly Landscape c.1800–1
D03720
Turner Bequest LXI 63
Pencil on coarse off-white wove paper, 131 x 206 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘180’ top left, descending vertically
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram below right of centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this drawing is perhaps a continuation of the landscape on folio 4 recto (D03656).
Technical notes:
This and the previous leaf, folio 5 (D40781, D03718; Turner Bequest LXI 62, 62v) were noted by Finberg in 1909 as ‘loose pages’;1 he suggested that they had been ‘cut out’ from this point in the book,2 where they have subsequently been rebound.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.164.
2
See ibid., p.163.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Clouds over a Hilly Landscape c.1800–1 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-clouds-over-a-hilly-landscape-r1178041, accessed 21 November 2024.