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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Conwy: Distant View of the Castle from the East 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Conwy: Distant View of the Castle from the East’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 82 Recto:
Conwy: Distant View of the Castle from the East 1798
D01305
Turner Bequest XXXVIII 51
Pencil on white wove paper, 229 x 332 mm
Blind-stamped bottom centre with Turner Bequest monogram
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘51’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXXVIII 51’ bottom left, descending vertically
A view looking north-west from the shore of the River Conwy, showing the walls of the town to the left and Penmaenbach beyond. The large finished watercolour of Conwy now in the Getty Museum, San Francisco,1 seems to have been partially based on this drawing, though that on the next page, folio 83 recto (D01306; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 52) was also used. The oil painting2 also makes use of this drawing. Other drawings of Conwy in this book are on the rectos of folios 80, 81, 84, 85 and 86 (D01303, D01304, D01336, D01307, D01308; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 50, 50a, 82, 53, 54).
1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, pp.329–30 no.270, reproduced.
2
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.107–8 no.141, pl.146 (colour).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Conwy: Distant View of the Castle from the East 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-conwy-distant-view-of-the-castle-from-the-east-r1173222, accessed 26 April 2024.