'Caernarvon Castle Silhouetted against the Sky, ?Seen from the West', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Caernarvon Castle Silhouetted against the Sky, ?Seen from the West

From Dolbadarn Sketchbook

Turner Bequest XLVI

Date 1799-1800

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 131 x 78 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D02069

Turner Bequest XLVI 49 a

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Turner's sketchbooks

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military (6,180)

castle (5,507)

periods and styles (3,305)

medieval (937)

nature (37,449)

landscape (24,056)

hill (10,038)

places (23,428)

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Caernarfon, Caernarfon Castle (44)

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Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire (249)

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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Geographic location

British Isles

Wales

Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire

Sketchbooks

Sketchbooks from the 1790s

Dolbadarn Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest