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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bala and Llyn Tegid; and Mountains 1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bala and Llyn Tegid; and Mountains’ 1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Recto:
Bala and Llyn Tegid; and Mountains 1808
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Turner Bequest CIII 2
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 226 x 295 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Cader Id[ris]’ above sketch of mountain peak, top right, and illegibly above similar, top centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘2’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CIII 2’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This seems to be a view over the town of Bala towards Llyn Tegid, as independently observed by Eric Shanes.1 See Introduction to the sketchbook for Turner’s likely visit to the holiday home of Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Fach-Ddeilliog, during his longer visit to Tabley in 1808. The house stood on the opposite, eastern side of the lake and this drawing would have been made during a trip round or across it to the town.
Above the main subject, there are slight sketches of two mountain peaks, the one on right described as Cader Idris.
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In conversation with the author.
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David Blayney Brown
May 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Bala and Llyn Tegid; and Mountains 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-bala-and-llyn-tegid-and-mountains-r1134493, accessed 19 April 2024.