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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner North Wales: Mountains; a Waterfall; Rocks and Houses 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘North Wales: Mountains; a Waterfall; Rocks and Houses’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Recto:
North Wales: Mountains; a Waterfall; Rocks and Houses 1798
D01299
Turner Bequest XXXVIII 46
Pencil on white wove paper, 332 x 229 mm
Blind-stamped lower right with Turner Bequest monogram
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘46’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXVIII 46’ bottom right
Finberg suggested the subject as ‘Falls of Ceunant Mawr’. The contemporary North Wales artist Jeremy Yates has pointed out that the sheet contains two or possibly three separate drawings.1 At the top is a broad view of mountains overlooking a valley; in the centre, a high rocky cliff with a waterfall; this may be Ceunant, above Llyn Gwynant, or possibly the Ogwen Falls at the head of Nant Ffrancon; and below, rocks and the roofs of houses. The last may have been drawn looking across the flat rocks that occur above Pont-y-Pair, the bridge at Betws-y-Coed that Turner recorded on folio 79 recto (D01302; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 49).
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Personal communication.
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Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘North Wales: Mountains; a Waterfall; Rocks and Houses 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-north-wales-mountains-a-waterfall-rocks-and-houses-r1173215, accessed 23 April 2024.