Joseph Mallord William Turner

Study for the Composition of ‘Dolbadern Castle, North Wales’

c.1799–1800

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Studies for Pictures Sketchbook
Medium
Ink and graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 210 × 135 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D04128
Turner Bequest LXIX 112

Catalogue entry

Turner submitted his painting of Dolbadarn to the Royal Academy exhibition of 1800, and presented it as his Diploma work on his election as full Academician in that year (Royal Academy of Arts, London).1 For five other studies in coloured chalks for the composition in this book and the picture for which they are studies, see under folio 102 recto (D04118; Turner Bequest LXIX 103). Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll consider this one the closest to the final picture.2
1
Butlin and Joll 1984, pp.9–10 no.12, pl.7 (colour).
2
Ibid., p.9.
Technical notes:
There is an offset from this drawing on folio 79 verso (D40587), indicating that the pages where once bound consecutively.
Verso:
Blank; offset from folio 112 recto opposite (D04129; Turner Bequest LXIX 113).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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