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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > North Wales 1799-1801 > Dolbadarn Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Caernarvon Castle: The Eagle Tower, with the Sun Setting Beyond 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Caernarvon Castle: The Eagle Tower, with the Sun Setting Beyond’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 55 Verso:
Caernarvon Castle: The Eagle Tower, with the Sun Setting Beyond 1799
D02080
Turner Bequest XLVI 55a
Pencil on white wove paper, 79 x 130 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There are generalized composition studies featuring Caernarvon Castle in this book on folios 49 verso, 50 recto, 51 recto, 52 recto and 54 recto (D02069, D02070, D02072, D02074, D02077). Made with the page turned horizontally, this note of part of the ruins, looking west, has more in common with the studies of Caernarvon in the contemporary Lancashire and North Wales sketchbook (Tate D01947, D01949, D01951; Turner Bequest XLV 24a, 25a, 26a).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Caernarvon Castle: The Eagle Tower, with the Sun Setting Beyond 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-the-eagle-tower-with-the-sun-setting-r1179939, accessed 18 September 2024.