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 Landscape; More than Half of the Sun Eclipsed 1804

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Landscape; More than Half of the Sun Eclipsed’ 1804
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
Landscape; More than Half of the Sun Eclipsed 1804
D05249
Turner Bequest LXXXV 3
Black and white chalk on white wove paper prepared with a slatey brown wash, 166 x 112 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXXV 3’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continuation of the subject on folio 2 verso (D05248).

David Blayney Brown
November 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Landscape; More than Half of the Sun Eclipsed 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-landscape-more-than-half-of-the-sun-eclipsed-r1201964, accessed 21 November 2024.