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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View over Newport, Monmouthshire, and the Mouth of the Usk, from the Porch of St Woolos's Church 1795

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View over Newport, Monmouthshire, and the Mouth of the Usk, from the Porch of St Woolos's Church’ 1795
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Recto:
View over Newport, Monmouthshire, and the Mouth of the Usk, from the Porch of St Woolos’s Church 1795
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Turner Bequest XXV 9
Pencil on white wove paper, 130 x 205 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Newport on Usk’ bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘9’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXV 9’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
St Woolos, dedicated to the early Welsh saint Gwynllyw (the present name being a corruption of this), has at various periods been Metropolitan Cathedral of Wales, and serves that function today. Turner has included in his view over the estuary of the Usk only the striking arched porch on the south side of the church. A drawing of Newport Castle, from which a finished watercolour was derived, is in the South Wales sketchbook (Tate D00555; Turner Bequest XXVI 3).
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Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View over Newport, Monmouthshire, and the Mouth of the Usk, from the Porch of St Woolos’s Church 1795 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-view-over-newport-monmouthshire-and-the-mouth-of-the-usk-r1140789, accessed 19 April 2024.