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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Criccieth: The Town from the North-West, with a Distant View of Moel y Gest 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Criccieth: The Town from the North-West, with a Distant View of Moel y Gest’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Recto:
Criccieth: The Town from the North-West, with a Distant View of Moel y Gest 1798
D01380
Turner Bequest XXXIX 25
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 170 x 266 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘W’ towards bottom right in the drawing, on side of house, and ‘G’ centre left, on field
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘25’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXXIX 25’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Moel y Gest is the conical hill on the north bank of the estuary of the Glaslyn; a view of it from the opposite side of the water is on folio 20 recto (D01375). For Criccieth, see under folio 23 recto (D01378).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Criccieth: The Town from the North-West, with a Distant View of Moel y Gest 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-criccieth-the-town-from-the-north-west-with-a-distant-view-r1173607, accessed 25 April 2024.