J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cardiff Bridge and Castle, with Boats 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cardiff Bridge and Castle, with Boats’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Cardiff Bridge and Castle, with Boats 1798
D01642
Turner Bequest XLI 13
Pencil on white wove paper, 289 x 454 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLI – 13’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner had made a study of Cardiff Castle from across the River Taf, showing more of the bridge, during his tour of South Wales in 1795; see the Smaller South Wales sketchbook (Tate D00471; Turner Bequest XXV 10). A finished watercolour based on that drawing is Tate D00702 (Turner Bequest XXVIII Q). He evidently considered the subject suitable for further investigation, but seems never to have completed another picture of the castle.
Technical notes:
There are some red and grey paint smears along the lower and right edges.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed in a later hand in pencil ‘45’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Cardiff Bridge and Castle, with Boats 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-cardiff-bridge-and-castle-with-boats-r1173262, accessed 24 April 2024.