Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (1775-1851)

Details
Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (1775-1851)

A Cloud Study

pencil and grey blue wash
10 1/8 x 16¼in. (257 x 412mm.)

Lot Essay

This drawing is from the smaller Fonthill sketchbook of 1799 TBXLVIII, and is very similar in subject and style to the drawing in the Turner Bequest on page 3.

Turner spent three weeks at Fonthill in 1799 with Henry Tresham, Benjamin West and William Hamilton. William Beckford (1760-1844) first commissioned James Wyatt to build Fonthill Abbey in 1793

More from British Watercolours

View All
View All