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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Usk, Monmouthshire, Seen from across the River 1798

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Usk, Monmouthshire, Seen from across the River’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Usk, Monmouthshire, Seen from across the River 1798
D01668
Turner Bequest XLI 35
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 283 x 457 mm
Watermark ‘1794 | J Whatman’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘B’ at centre, on a building
Inscribed in black ink ‘41’ bottom left
Stamped in black ‘XLI – 35’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a nearer view of the town than that on D01665 (Turner Bequest XLI 32) in this sketchbook. Turner may have used both drawings for reference when he made a further watercolour of Usk (Tate D01906; Turner Bequest XLIV d).
Technical notes:
The sheet is faded from exposure. Finberg noted that it had been withdrawn from the Loan Collection by 1909 on account of the indigo pigment fading in particular.1

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Finberg 1909, I, p.99.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Usk, Monmouthshire, Seen from across the River 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-usk-monmouthshire-seen-from-across-the-river-r1173282, accessed 26 April 2024.