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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Looking over Mountains to a Ruined Castle, with the Sea Beyond 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Looking over Mountains to a Ruined Castle, with the Sea Beyond’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Recto:
Looking over Mountains to a Ruined Castle, with the Sea Beyond 1798
D01374
Turner Bequest XXXIX 19
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 170 x 266 mm
Blind-stamped lower right with Turner Bequest monogram
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘19’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXXIX 19’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The castle that is just visible over the ridge is perhaps Harlech. The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Looking over Mountains to a Ruined Castle, with the Sea Beyond 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-looking-over-mountains-to-a-ruined-castle-with-the-sea-r1173601, accessed 16 April 2024.