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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Caernarvon Castle: Part of the Walls, with the Eagle Tower 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Caernarvon Castle: Part of the Walls, with the Eagle Tower’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Verso:
Caernarvon Castle: Part of the Walls, with the Eagle Tower 1799
D01949
Turner Bequest XLV 25a
Pencil on white wove paper, 225 x 329 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this is the abandoned beginning, partly erased, of a drawing showing a similar subject to that on folio 24 verso (D01947).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Caernarvon Castle: Part of the Walls, with the Eagle Tower 1799 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 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-caernarvon-castle-part-of-the-walls-with-the-eagle-tower-r1177824, accessed 24 April 2024.