Joseph Mallord William Turner

Castle Ruins: ?Flint

1799

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Dolbadarn Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 79 × 130 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D02012
Turner Bequest XLVI 13 a

Catalogue entry

The two separate and extremely slight studies here, made with the page turned horizontally, are hard to read, but they apparently show the same castle as that on folio 14 recto opposite (D02013): Flint, on the south shore of the Dee estuary.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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