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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Aberystwyth: The Castle and Town with a Bridge under Construction 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Aberystwyth: The Castle and Town with a Bridge under Construction’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Recto:
Aberystwyth: The Castle and Town with a Bridge under Construction 1798
D01501
Turner Bequest XL 23
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘23’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XL – 23’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing continues on folio 24 verso opposite (D01500; Turner Bequest XL 22a), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Aberystwyth: The Castle and Town with a Bridge under Construction 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-aberystwyth-the-castle-and-town-with-a-bridge-under-r1173740, accessed 18 April 2024.