Joseph Mallord William Turner

A Castle above a Rocky Ravine: ?Hay

1798

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Swans Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 174 × 125 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D01779
Turner Bequest XLII 104

Catalogue entry

The drawing is continued on folio 53 recto opposite (D01780; Turner Bequest XLI 105). Turner’s inscription may indicate ‘Hay or Brecon’. This and the following views, on folios 53 verso and 54 recto (D01781– D01782; Turner Bequest XLI 106, 107), seem to be of Hay Castle. The ragged silhouette of the ruined building with its attached seventeenth-century manor house may also be visible behind the medieval tower shown on folios 36 verso–37 recto and 37 verso–38 recto (D01747–D01750; Turner Bequest XLI 72–73, 74–75).

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

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