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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Caerphilly Castle from the West 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Caerphilly Castle from the West’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Verso:
Distant View of Caerphilly Castle from the West 1798
D01753
Turner Bequest XLII 78
Pencil on buff laid paper, 174 x 125 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘C’ bottom left
Stamped in black ‘XLII – 78’ top right, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the drawing is continued on folio 40 recto opposite (D01754; Turner Bequest XLI 79). There are other views of Caerphilly in this book, on folios 1 verso–2 recto, 3 recto, and 31 verso–32 recto (D01677–D01678, D01680, D01737–D01738; Turner Bequest XLI 2–3, 5, 62–63).
Turner also studied Caerphilly in his 1798 Cyfarthfa sketchbook (Tate D01636, D01637, D01639; Turner Bequest XLI 8, 9, 10a).

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Distant View of Caerphilly Castle from the West 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-distant-view-of-caerphilly-castle-from-the-west-r1173949, accessed 24 April 2024.