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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The Outer Dam of Caerphilly Castle 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The Outer Dam of Caerphilly Castle’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
?The Outer Dam of Caerphilly Castle 1798
D01640
Turner Bequest XLI 11
Pencil on white wove paper, 292 x 459 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed in pencil ‘11’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLI – 11’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of this study must be uncertain, but it seems to show the overgrown bastions of the huge dams containing the defensive lakes to north and south of the castle at Caerphilly; see D01636, D01637, and D01639 (Turner Bequest XLI 8, 9, 10a).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘?The Outer Dam of Caerphilly Castle 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-the-outer-dam-of-caerphilly-castle-r1173260, accessed 25 April 2024.