'View across a Plain to a Bay, with a Line of Mountains; Looking West from above Caernarvon towards lyr Eifl and the Lleyn Peninsular', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

View across a Plain to a Bay, with a Line of Mountains; Looking West from above Caernarvon towards lyr Eifl and the Lleyn Peninsular

From Lancashire and North Wales Sketchbook

Turner Bequest XLV

Date 1799

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 330 x 228 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D01937

Turner Bequest XLV 19 a

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Subject

nature (37,449)

landscape (24,056)

mountain (6,140)

wooded (8,572)

seascapes and coasts (6,839)

bay (404)

coast (3,628)

sea (3,100)

people (21,186)

adults (19,627)

figure (6,496)

places (23,428)

UK counties (9,311)

Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire (249)

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UK natural features (3,821)

Lleyn Peninsula (1)

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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Geographic location

British Isles

Wales

Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire

Sketchbooks

Sketchbooks from the 1790s

Lancashire and North Wales Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest