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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Vale of Llangollen with a Distant View of Dinas Brân 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Vale of Llangollen with a Distant View of Dinas Brân’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 93 Recto:
The Vale of Llangollen with a Distant View of Dinas Brân 1798
D01314
Turner Bequest XXXVIII 60
Pencil on white wove paper, 229 x 332 mm
Blind-stamped bottom centre with Turner Bequest monogram
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘60’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXXVIII 60’ bottom left, descending vertically
Turner drew the ancient castle on its conical hill at intervals during his journey down the Dee valley, beginning at Valle Crucis; this is the last of the sequence, taken as he travelled east towards Welshpool and the English border. For a note on the drawings of Dinas Brân in this book see under folio 87 recto (D01309; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 55).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Vale of Llangollen with a Distant View of Dinas Brân 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-the-vale-of-llangollen-with-a-distant-view-of-dinas-bran-r1173233, accessed 25 April 2024.