Joseph Mallord William Turner

Cilgerran Castle

1798

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Hereford Court Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
None
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D01280
Turner Bequest XXXVIII 28 a

Catalogue entry

The castle is drawn from a viewpoint further downstream than that of folio 38 recto (D01279; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 28). Other views of Cilgerran are on the rectos of folios 37, 40 and 41 (D01342, D01354, D01281; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 88, 100, 29).
Finberg listed this subject twice in his 1909 Inventory;1 the superfluous cross-reference entry, Turner Bequest XXXVIII 73, was initially allocated Tate accession number D01327, since cancelled.
1
Finberg 1909, I, p.85, cross-referenced from 87.
Verso:
Blank; Finberg’s use of double quotation marks for the title usually indicates his transcribing an inscription, but nothing is now apparent on the sheet; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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