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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner North Wales: A Single-Arched Stone Bridge and a Cottage, with ?Aran Fawddwy Beyond c.1798

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘North Wales: A Single-Arched Stone Bridge and a Cottage, with ?Aran Fawddwy Beyond’ c.1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
North Wales: A Single-Arched Stone Bridge and a Cottage, with ?Aran Fawddwy Beyond c.1798
D00872
Turner Bequest XXXIII A
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 277 x 434 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman 1794’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXIII A’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This subject is based on a drawing in the 1798 North Wales sketchbook (Tate D01357; Turner Bequest XXXIX 2). Finberg suggests that it shows the influence of Richard Wilson (1713–1782),1 a comment that can be made of many works by Turner of this date.
There are architectural sketches on the verso (D41440).

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.65.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘North Wales: A Single-Arched Stone Bridge and a Cottage, with ?Aran Fawddwy Beyond c.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-north-wales-a-single-arched-stone-bridge-and-a-cottage-with-r1174954, accessed 26 April 2024.