Styles Genres Museums Artists Support

An open visual arts database with 425,000+ artworks, 36,000+ artists, and 800+ styles spanning centuries of human creativity.

Browse

Styles
Genres
Museums
Artists
Favorites

Popular Styles

Impressionism
Romanticism
Surrealism
Pop Art
Cubism
Realism

Museums

Art Institute of Chicago
MoMA
Rijksmuseum
Cleveland Museum of Art
The MET
Louvre

VisualArtsDB is free and open for everyone.

Support the project

© 2026 VisualArtsDB

Study of Clouds by William Turner — VisualArtsDB

Study of Clouds

Study of Clouds

1809–1862

Medium: Charcoal, with stumping, heightened with white chalk, on blue wove paper
Dimensions: 22.5 × 27.3 cm (8 7/8 × 10 3/4 in.)
Genre: charcoal
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

Tags

drawings (visual works)chalk stickswhite chalkprints and drawingstumpingdrawing techniquespaper (fiber product)charcoal

More by William Turner

Bank of a River with Mill

Bank of a River with Mill

William Turner, 1798

Stream and Trestle Bridge

Stream and Trestle Bridge

William Turner, 1798

Ravine with House in Distance

Ravine with House in Distance

William Turner, 1798

An April Shower: A View from Binsey Ferry Near Oxford, Looking Towards Port Meadow and Godstow

An April Shower: A View from Binsey Ferry Near Oxford, Looking Towards Port Meadow and Godstow

William Turner, 1842

Study of a Tree in Bloom

Study of a Tree in Bloom

William Turner, 1830