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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Abergavenny: General View with the Castle and Sugar Loaf Beyond 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Abergavenny: General View with the Castle and Sugar Loaf Beyond’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Verso:
Abergavenny: General View with the Castle and Sugar Loaf Beyond 1798
D01494
Turner Bequest XL 19a
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘74’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘XL – 19 a’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 22 recto opposite (D01495; Turner Bequest XL 20). Turner visited Abergavenny and took a considerable interest in the Skyrrid, the Magic Mountain, on his first tour to this part of the world in 1792; see Tate D00143–D00145 and D00181 (Turner Bequest XII N, O, P. XVII F).
Here he bestows only a cursory glance on the town, though he made a sketch of the bridge which was to become the basis for an exhibited watercolour; see the following drawing on folios 22 verso–23 recto (D01496–D01497; Turner Bequest XL 20a–21). A larger drawing of the same view is in the contemporary Cyfarthfa sketchbook (Tate D01655; Turner Bequest XLI 24).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Abergavenny: General View with the Castle and Sugar Loaf 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-abergavenny-general-view-with-the-castle-and-sugar-loaf-r1173733, accessed 26 April 2024.