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 > Drawings Related to the Welsh Tour of > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The Glaslyn from Traeth Mawr ?1799

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The Glaslyn from Traeth Mawr’ ?1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
?The Glaslyn from Traeth Mawr ?1799
D03648
Turner Bequest LX a G
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 550 x 770 mm
Blind-stamped lower right with Turner Bequest monogram
Watermark ‘J Whatman 1794’
Inscribed by Turner in brown ink ‘47’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LX (a) – G’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg noted with pleasure this ‘lovely p[ain]t[in]g from nature. harmony in fawns. Water in foreg[roun]d – and stream issuing from hills’.1 The present author has argued that the drawing might have been worked up in the studio;2 but its fresh and spontaneous handling, including revisions of the subject that modify the pencil outlines on which the colour is based, perhaps suggest that it was done entirely on the spot. The identification of the subject is tentative. For Traeth Mawr, see also Tate D03647 (Turner Bequest LX a F).
1
A.J. Finberg (died 1939), undated MS note in an interleaved copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, I, opposite p,162.
2
Wilton 1984, p.64.
Technical notes:
Traces of vertical centre fold.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘?The Glaslyn from Traeth Mawr ?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-the-glaslyn-from-traeth-mawr-r1180060, accessed 26 April 2024.