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 Laugharne Castle: The Ruins Seen from the North 1795

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Laugharne Castle: The Ruins Seen from the North’ 1795
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Recto:
Laugharne Castle: The Ruins Seen from the North 1795
D00574
Turner Bequest XXVI 21
Pencil on white wove paper, 203 x 264 mm
Watermark ‘1794 | J WHATMAN’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Laugharne Castle’ bottom centre, and ‘21’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXVI 21’ bottom left, descending vertically
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally.
This is one of the items listed in Finberg’s Inventory as having been included in the Fourth Loan Collection, but which do not tally with those listed by William White in his 1896 catalogue,1 published after the initial showing of the collection at the Ruskin Art Museum, Sheffield (1891–5). They may have been replacements for works which were withdrawn due to over-exposure. The present sheet is recorded in the Manchester and Newcastle catalogues cited here; earlier venues and dates are noted as doubtful.
1
William White, Notes on a Biographical Series of Fifty Drawings and Sketches by J.M.W. Turner, R.A., Belonging to the National Gallery Collection, London 1896.
Technical notes:
The sheet is discoloured from prolonged display.
Verso:
Inscribed in pencil ‘21’ and in a ?twentieth century hand ‘Langhaddon’. The reference, by a modern curator, to ‘Langhaddon’ repeats a name occurring in the itinerary at the start of this book (D40555), which, however, refers to Llawhaden Castle, not to Laugharne; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Laugharne Castle: The Ruins Seen from the North 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-laugharne-castle-the-ruins-seen-from-the-north-r1140901, accessed 25 April 2024.