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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Aberystwyth: The Town and Castle seen from the North 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Aberystwyth: The Town and Castle seen from the North’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Recto:
Aberystwyth: The Town and Castle seen from the North 1798
D01559
Turner Bequest XL 57
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘57’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XL – 57’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing continues on folio 58 verso opposite (D01558; Turner Bequest XL 56a), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Aberystwyth: The Town and Castle seen from the North 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-town-and-castle-seen-from-the-north-r1173798, accessed 16 April 2024.