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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner General View of Cyfarthfa Ironworks from the Brecon Road 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘General View of Cyfarthfa Ironworks from the Brecon Road’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
General View of Cyfarthfa Ironworks from the Brecon Road 1798
D01631
Turner Bequest XLI 3
Pencil on white wove paper, 289 x 456 mm
Watermark ‘1794 | J Whatman’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Carfara Works from | Brecon Road’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLI – 3’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view is taken looking east from close to the site of the works. The bridge in this drawing was probably that which carried the railway back over the River Taf to the canal basin on the lower Cyfarthfa Works site. For other aspects of the site see D01629 and D01630 (XLI 1, 2) of this sketchbook.
Technical notes:
The sheet is faded from exposure.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed in a later hand in pencil ‘40’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘General View of Cyfarthfa Ironworks from the Brecon Road 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-general-view-of-cyfarthfa-ironworks-from-the-brecon-road-r1173251, accessed 19 April 2024.