'View over Newport, Monmouthshire, and the Mouth of the Usk, from the Porch of St Woolos's Church', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

View over Newport, Monmouthshire, and the Mouth of the Usk, from the Porch of St Woolos's Church

From Smaller South Wales Sketchbook

Turner Bequest XXV

Date 1795

Dimensionssupport: 130 x 205 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D00470

Turner Bequest XXV 9

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Turner's sketchbooks

View this artwork in the Smaller South Wales Sketchbook

Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 9 Recto:

View over Newport, Monmouthshire, and the Mouth of the Usk, from the Porch of St Woolos’s Church 1795

D00470
Turner Bequest XXV 9

Pencil on white wove paper, 130 x 205 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Newport on Usk’ bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘9’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXV 9’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Exhibition history

References

St Woolos, dedicated to the early Welsh saint Gwynllyw (the present name being a corruption of this), has at various periods been Metropolitan Cathedral of Wales, and serves that function today. Turner has included in his view over the estuary of the Usk only the striking arched porch on the south side of the church. A drawing of Newport Castle, from which a finished watercolour was derived, is in the South Wales sketchbook (Tate D00555; Turner Bequest XXVI 3).

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.