Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Estuary of the Mawddach near Barmouth, with Cader Idris Beyond

1798

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In Tate Britain

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Hereford Court Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 229 × 332 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D01290
Turner Bequest XXXVIII 38

Catalogue entry

For a note on other sketches of Cader in this book under folio 46 recto (D01284; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 32).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram. There is colour offset from another sheet, possibly that now bound as 55 recto opposite (D01455; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 91), but Finberg records a leaf torn out after the present one ‘used for watercolour’.1

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Finberg 1909, I, p.85.

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