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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View over Mountains and Inlets of the Sea, with a Castle on a Ridge 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View over Mountains and Inlets of the Sea, with a Castle on a Ridge’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Verso:
View over Mountains and Inlets of the Sea, with a Castle on a Ridge 1799
D02067
Turner Bequest XLVI 48a
Pencil on white wove paper, 79 x 130 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of this slight sketch, made with the page turned horizontally, is difficult to identify. It may be a view from the side of Snowdon, like that on folio 53 recto (D02076). Alternatively, it is possibly a view from above the Sychnant Pass (see folios 57 verso–58 recto; D02084–D02085) towards Conwy, Llandudno and the Great Orme.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View over Mountains and Inlets of the Sea, with a Castle on a Ridge 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-over-mountains-and-inlets-of-the-sea-with-a-castle-on-a-r1179926, accessed 19 April 2024.