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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View towards Snowdon from Nantlle 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View towards Snowdon from Nantlle’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Verso:
View towards Snowdon from Nantlle 1799
D02036
Turner Bequest XLVI 27a
Pencil and grey wash on white wove paper, 79 x 130 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, this is the view towards Snowdon from near Nantlle, about three miles east of the Harlech-Caernarfon road at Penegroes. The composition is one that Richard Wilson (1713–1782) had made famous in a celebrated picture, Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle, of which two versions exist, in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and the Nottingham Castle Museum (1765–7).
Here, Snowdon itself is mostly obscured by cloud. The two spurs that flank the vista are, on the left, Mynnydd Mawr, and on the right Y Garn.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View towards Snowdon from Nantlle 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-view-towards-snowdon-from-nantlle-r1179895, accessed 20 April 2024.