View near Beddgelert from a Book of Sketches about 1798 Thomas Girtin 1775-1802 and J.M.W. Turner 1775-1851 Leather-bound book containing 55 sheets Pencil and watercolour on paper Lent by the Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester

Room 3 View near Beddgelert from a Book of Sketches Girtin did not normally use a sketchbook when painting from nature. Instead he would clip single sheets of paper to a board, which he would rest on his lap and paint on whilst sitting down. This work shows signs of having been coloured on the spot, when Girtin was touring north Wales. It was later bound into the volume, which Girtin seems to have used as a sample book to show patrons, in this case presumably in the hope that one of them would order a finished work to be made of the view.