Joseph Mallord William Turner

Part of the Walls of Caernarvon Castle

c.1798–9

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Academical Sketchbook
Medium
Dimensions
Support: 140 × 216 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D01863
Turner Bequest XLIII 43

Catalogue entry

Made with the page turned horizontally, this rapid and incomplete study is perhaps derived from the elaborate pencil drawing of Caernarvon in the 1798 Hereford Court sketchbook (Tate D01348; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 94); there are also slight pencil studies of the walls of the castle from much the same viewpoint in the 1799 Lancashire and North Wales sketchbook (Tate D01947, D01949, D01951; Turner Bequest XLV 24a, 25a, 26a).
Technical notes:
There is some white gouache offset from folio 43 verso (D01862; Turner Bequest XLIII 42a).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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