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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The Vale of Llangollen 1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The Vale of Llangollen’ 1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 73 Verso:
?The Vale of Llangollen 1808
D06952
Turner Bequest CIV 72a
Pencil on white laid paper, 98 x 162 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Light’ and ‘Light Grey’ within image, centre and right of centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. See Introduction for Turner’s travels in North Wales in 1808, and his fondness for fishing. Although the identification is tentative, this sketch might depict the Vale of Llangollen and the River Dee; views of Llangollen follow from folio 77 verso (D06960; Turner Bequest CIV 76a). As all these are drawn with the book inverted, Turner may have been working from the back of it at this point.

David Blayney Brown
May 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?The Vale of Llangollen 1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-vale-of-llangollen-r1133708, accessed 22 September 2024.