Watercolour on paper
Coastal Scenes and Shipping c.1820-45
Coastal Scenes and Shipping c.1820-45
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Sea and Sky
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
coast
sea
seascapes and coasts
<p>Turner often used the technique of brushing a second colour onto wet paper before the first wash has dried, known as ‘wet in wet’, in his sea studies. In particular he employs it to great effect when painting a changing sky where one colour diffuses into another.</p><p>He also drives the wet watercolour around the paper with his brush or his fingers so that the direction of the paint echoes the restless energy of the waves and the transient patterns of the sky.</p><p><em>Gallery label, April 2005</em></p>
paper unique watercolour
23 March 2005 – 16 October 2005
2005-10-16
23 March 2005 – 16 October 2005
2005-10-16
2005-03-23
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2005-03-23
Turner and the Sea
Collection based display
Sea and Sky
support: 149 × 251 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
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<span class="text7">Turner often used the technique of brushing a second      colour onto wet paper before the first wash has dried, known as </span><span class="text6">‘wet in wet’, in his sea studies.</span><span class="text0"> In particular</span><span class="text7"> </span><span class="text6">he employs it to great effect when painting</span><span class="text7"> a changing sky where one colour diffuses into another. </span>
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<span class="text7">He also drives the wet watercolour around the paper      with his brush or his fingers so that the direction of the paint echoes the      restless energy of the waves and the transient patterns of the sky. </span>
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coast sea seascapes and coasts
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