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

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

Joseph Mallord William Turner View of Cyfarthfa Ironworks ?from the North-West 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View of Cyfarthfa Ironworks ?from the North-West’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
View of Cyfarthfa Ironworks ?from the North-West 1798
D01630
Turner Bequest XLI 2
Pencil on white wove paper, 288 x 457 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Carfara Works’ bottom right, and ‘Reflec Clear’ towards bottom right in water
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLI – 2’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
To the right of this view of the Cyfarthfa works is the impressive elevated wooden aqueduct which fed the huge water-wheel, 14.6 metres (48 feet) in diameter, which had been in use since 1796. Behind this are the chimneys of the building housing the puddling furnaces and rolling mills.
Technical notes:
The sheet is faded from exposure.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed in a later hand in pencil ‘39’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View of Cyfarthfa Ironworks ?from the North-West 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-view-of-cyfarthfa-ironworks-from-the-north-west-r1173250, accessed 25 April 2024.