In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
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- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Part of
- Academical Sketchbook
- Medium
- Dimensions
- Support: 140 x 216 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D01860
Turner Bequest XLIII 41 a
Display caption
Turner sketched Caernarfon Castle many times during his visit to Wales in 1798. He was particularly fascinated with the changing effects of light on the water in front of the Castle, as this sketch demonstrates.
Although Turner obviously made this informal drawing very quickly, it still shows a profound debt to the carefully balanced classical landscapes of the seventeenth-century artist Claude Lorraine.
Gallery label, September 2004
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