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Storm on Margate Sands

Maker

(artist)
1775-1851

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1835 - 1840

Medium

charcoal, red and white chalk, watercolour and bodycolour on brown wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 29.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1974.STC.2

Mode of Acquisition

Jeanne Courtauld, gift, in memory of Sir Stephen Courtauld, 1974

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Turner has envisaged this dramatic cloudburst in terms of shape and pattern. Silhouetted in sunlight, a dark roll cloud hangs over the sea, dispensing a torrent of rain on the waves. Horizontal bands of blue-grey, yellow and red indicate depth, and the play of light on the water and sand. Watercolour, gouache and chalk merge imperceptibly into one medium, the heavily worked gouache indicating that the work might have been finished indoors.

Provenance

bequeathed by the artist to his housekeeper, Sophia Booth, 1851; purchased from her by John Ruskin (1819-1900); his sale, Christie's (London), 15 April 1869, lot 15; purchased there by White (London); Reverend F.A. Armitage; by descent to his son, Reverend A.L. Armitage; by descent to S.F. Armitage; his sale, Christie's (London), 18 April 1913, lot 79; purchased there by Thomas Agnew & Sons (London); purchased there by Miss Alice G. Bickham; her sale, Christie's (London), 24 November 1927, lot 29; purchased there by Thomas Agnew & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Stephen Courtauld (1883-1967), 1929; by descent to Jeanne Courtauld, 1972; presented by Jeanne Courtauld in memory of Stephen Courtauld, 1974

Exhibition History

The Courtauld Collection. A Vision for Impressionism, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 20/02/2019-17/06/2019

Wolken Welt des Flüchtigen, Leopold Museum, Vienna, 22/03/2013-01/07/2013

Turner - Painter of Elements, Turner Contemporary & Margate & England, 28/01/2012-22/04/2012 ...More

Paths to Fame - Turner's Watercolour Landscapes, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 30/10/2008-25/01/2009

Paths to Fame - Turner's Watercolour Landscapes, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, England, 16/07/2008-12/10/2008

Turner and Kent, Royal Museum and Art Gallery & Canterbury & Kent, 29/09/2001-03/11/2001

Making and Meaning: Turner and The Fighting Temeraire, National Gallery, London, 03/07/1995-01/10/1995

Turner, Prout, Steer - Three Bequests to the Courtauld Institute
Galleries, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1980

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/05/1977-01/06/1977

Watercolours by J.M.W. Turner from the Sir Stephen Courtauld
Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1974 ...Less

Literature

Serres, Karen (ed.), The Courtauld Collection: A Vision for Impressionism, Paul Holberton Publishing 2019
ill. on p. 341

Wolken: Welt des Flüchtigen, Leopold Museum, Vienna, 2013
p. 354
ill. on p. 109

Turner and the elements, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg; Muzeum Narodowe, Krakow; Turner Contemporary, Margate, 2011-2012
no. 55
no. 55 ...More

Yardley, Edward, 'A Margate Sketchbook Re-assembled?' in 'Turner Studies', 1984 - 53-55; 4, no. 2
p. 53
ill. on p. 53

Turner Prout Steer Three Bequests to the Courtauld Institute of Art, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1980
no. 14 (Turner)

Wilton, Andrew, The life and work of J.M.W. Turner, London, 1979
no. 1391
ill. on p. 467

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1977
cat. no. 34

English landscape drawings and watercolours, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1977
no. 34

Kitson, Michael, Watercolours by J.M.W. Turner: Turner watercolours from the collection of Stephen Courtauld, London, Courtauld Institute of Art, 1974
no. 13 ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: x

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