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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Town with a Square Church Tower and Bridge 1798

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 37 Verso:
A Town with a Square Church Tower and Bridge 1798
D01523
Turner Bequest XL 35a
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘58’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘XL – 35 a’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This may be a view of Llandovery on the River Tywi. The subject is continued on folio 38 recto opposite (D01524; Turner Bequest XL 36). Another drawing of Llandovery Castle is on folios 59 verso–58 recto (D01560–D01561; Turner Bequest XL 57a–58); see also the contemporary Hereford Court sketchbook (Tate D01266; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 16).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Town with a Square Church Tower and Bridge 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-a-town-with-a-square-church-tower-and-bridge-r1173762, accessed 28 March 2024.