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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dolbadarn Castle from Llyn Padarn 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dolbadarn Castle from Llyn Padarn’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Recto:
Dolbadarn Castle from Llyn Padarn 1799
D02026
Turner Bequest XLVI 21
Pencil on white wove paper, 79 x 130 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘1’ top right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘21’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XLVI – 21’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing, made with the page turned horizontally, shows a view that is continuous with that on folio 20 verso opposite (D02025). It includes a distant view of the castle that Turner was to make the subject of his Diploma work for the Royal Academy collection, the oil painting Dolbadern Castle, North Wales,1 exhibited in 1800. Other drawings of Dolbadarn in this book are on folios 41 recto and 44 recto (D02054, D02060). He had already noted the ruins while on tour here in 1798; see the Hereford Court and North Wales sketchbooks (Tate D01300, D01388; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 47, XXXIX 33).
1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.9–10 no.12, pl.7 (colour).
Verso:
Blank; washed with a pale buff ground.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Dolbadarn Castle from Llyn Padarn 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-dolbadarn-castle-from-llyn-padarn-r1179885, accessed 27 April 2024.