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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Castle on a Bay with Shipping at Anchor and Figures on the Beach in the Foreground c.1799-1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Castle on a Bay with Shipping at Anchor and Figures on the Beach in the Foreground’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 114 Recto:
A Castle on a Bay with Shipping at Anchor and Figures on the Beach in the Foreground c.1799–1802
D04132
Turner Bequest LXIX 115
Ink and white chalk on blue laid paper, 135 x 210 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘115’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXIX-115’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg plausibly suggests that this composition study shows Flint Castle;1 the drawing is a variant of the design found on folios 87 recto and 88 recto (D04102, D04103; Turner Bequest LXIX 88, 89); see also folios 1 recto and 5 recto (D03994, D03998). The study of ships and figures on a beach on folio 9 recto (D04003) is apparently from the same sequence of sketches.
Other studies of Flint Castle are in the Dolbadarn sketchbook (Tate D02012, D02013; Turner Bequest XLVI 13a, 14).
1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.173.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed in pencil in the same hand as that on the verso of folio 115 (D04133; Turner Bequest LXIX 116) ‘143’.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Castle on a Bay with Shipping at Anchor and Figures on the Beach in the Foreground c.1799–1802 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-a-castle-on-a-bay-with-shipping-at-anchor-and-figures-on-the-r1178012, accessed 19 September 2024.