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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Crickhowell: The Castle Ruins from the East 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Crickhowell: The Castle Ruins from the East’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Verso:
?Crickhowell: The Castle Ruins from the East 1798
D01539
Turner Bequest XL 45a
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘48’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XL – 45 a’ top right, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the broach spire of the church in the background may provide a clue as to the location of this view, continued on folio 48 recto opposite (D01540; Turner Bequest XL 46). It is reminiscent of St Edmund’s Church, Crickhowell (see folios 25 verso–26 recto; D01502–D01503; Turner Bequest XL 23a–24), and the position of the castle ruins on a low hill in the foreground suggests that this is a view of the town from the approach along the Abergavenny road. A colour study derived from this drawing is Tate D01902 (Turner Bequest XLIV Z).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘?Crickhowell: The Castle Ruins from the East 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-crickhowell-the-castle-ruins-from-the-east-r1173778, accessed 19 September 2024.