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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Wales 1798 > Hereford Court Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Cader Idris: Looking up towards Llyn Cau 1798

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cader Idris: Looking up towards Llyn Cau’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Recto:
Cader Idris: Looking up towards Llyn Cau 1798
D01339
Turner Bequest XXXVIII 85
Pencil and watercolour with stopping-out on white wove paper, 229 x 332 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXVIII 85’ bottom left, descending vertically
This is a more fully worked-up version of the view recorded on folio 44 recto (D01324; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 70). Traces of the watercolour washes used in completing it have spread onto folio 46 recto (D01284; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 32). Here the presence of the volcanic lake, Llyn Cau, is suggested by a pale strip below the steep cliffs of rock in the distance. Finberg identified the spot as Llyn Idwal, a similar volcanic lake on the north side of the summit of Glyder Fawr (which is not, as he states, near Betws-y-Coed).1 For a note on other sketches of Cader in this book see under D01284.
1
Finberg 1909, I, p.88.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Cader Idris: Looking up towards Llyn Cau 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-cader-idris-looking-up-towards-llyn-cau-r1173183, accessed 26 April 2024.