'A Mountain: Craig y Foel', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

A Mountain: Craig y Foel

From Drawings and Watercolours Connected with the Welsh and Marches Tours

Date 1792

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 160 x 210 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D00142

Turner Bequest XII M

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

A Mountain: Craig y Foel 1792

D00142
Turner Bequest XII M

Pencil on off-white laid paper, 160 x 210 mm.
Watermark: a crown
Inscribed in red ink ‘XII M’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XII M’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

This distinctively shaped hill seems to be the feature recorded in Turner’s small watercolour, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, of Craig y Voel 1 inscribed by the artist ‘Craggy Voyle near the River Ellen’ and ‘near Rhaidder’ (see the introductory remarks to this section). The details of cottages and broken fencing in the foreground are repeated with variations in the watercolour. The Elan Valley is now the site of reservoirs for the City of Birmingham, and the land round the foot of Craig y Voel is flooded, with a dam to the right of this view.

Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.303 no.29, reproduced.

Technical notes:

The watermark is continuous with the ‘GR’ on Tate D00139 (Turner Bequest XII L), which is the other half of the original sheet.

Verso:

Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

Read this catalogue entry in full

This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.