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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View over the Tywi Estuary, with Llanstephan Castle on the Distant Promontory 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View over the Tywi Estuary, with Llanstephan Castle on the Distant Promontory’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Recto:
View over the Tywi Estuary, with Llanstephan Castle on the Distant Promontory 1798
D01575
Turner Bequest XL 66
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘66’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XL – 66’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing continues on folio 67 verso opposite (D01574; Turner Bequest XL 65a), under which the subject is discussed.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed in red ink ‘27’.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View over the Tywi Estuary, with Llanstephan Castle on the Distant Promontory 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-view-over-the-tywi-estuary-with-llanstephan-castle-on-the-r1173814, accessed 23 April 2024.