J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Wales and Isle of Wight 1795-1800 > South Wales Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Newport Castle 1795

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Newport Castle’ 1795
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
Newport Castle 1795
D00555
Turner Bequest XXVI 3
Pencil on white wove paper, 203 x 264 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘3’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXVI 3’ bottom right
The finished watercolour of this subject, probably that ordered by Mr Kershaw (see the list on D40557 near the front of this sketchbook), is now in the British Museum, London (Salting Bequest).1 A copy of the pencil drawing by a protegée of Ruskin’s, Isabella Jay, is in the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Turner made a drawing of the view over Newport from St Woolos’s church in his Smaller South Wales sketchbook (Tate D00470; Turner Bequest XXV 9).
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally.
1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, pp.317–18 no.167, reproduced.
Verso:
Inscribed by Ruskin in red ink ‘<391 800> | 176 Inv’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Newport Castle 1795 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-newport-castle-r1140882, accessed 25 April 2024.