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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Wales and Isle of Wight 1795-1800 > Smaller South Wales Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Neath, Glamorgan, Seen across the River 1795

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Neath, Glamorgan, Seen across the River’ 1795
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Neath, Glamorgan, Seen across the River 1795
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Turner Bequest XXV 15
Pencil on white wove paper, 130 x 205 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Neath’ bottom right and ‘Meadow’ within the drawing towards bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘15’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXV 15’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
An untraced design based on this drawing was engraved by G. Murray for the Pocket Print Magazine, 1 October 1795.1
The itinerary that Turner had copied out for him in the South Wales sketchbook mentions ‘Neath Castle’, ‘Neath Abbey’ and ‘very fine Views along the Shores’ (Tate D40554; Turner Bequest XXVI [recto of first flyleaf]). From Neath Turner made a detour up the Nedd river valley as far as Melincourt, where he drew the waterfall in his South Wales book (Tate D00560; Turner Bequest XXVI 8).
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Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.312 no.115.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Neath, Glamorgan, Seen across the River 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-neath-glamorgan-seen-across-the-river-r1140795, accessed 25 April 2024.