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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cilgerran Castle: Distant View, Looking Upstream 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cilgerran Castle: Distant View, Looking Upstream’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Recto:
Cilgerran Castle: Distant View, Looking Upstream 1798
D01281
Turner Bequest XXXVIII 29
Pencil on white wove paper, 229 x 332 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘29’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXXVIII 29’ bottom left, descending vertically
The prominent building in the left foreground is probably a mill. Finberg suggested that the oil painting that Turner exhibited in 1799, Kilgarran Castle on the Twyvey, Hazy Sunrise, previous to a Sultry Day (National Trust),1 was based on this drawing,2 though Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll cite the watercolour study on folio 37 recto (D01342; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 88) as the primary model. Other views of Cilgerran are on the rectos of folios 38, 39 and 40 (D01279, D01280, D01354; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 28, 28a, 100).
1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.8–9 no. 11, pl.9 (colour).
2
Finberg 1909, I, p.85.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Cilgerran Castle: Distant View, Looking Upstream 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-cilgerran-castle-distant-view-looking-upstream-r1173179, accessed 25 April 2024.