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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Wales 1798 > Cyfarthfa Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Looking along a River between High Wooded Banks, with a Large Castle just Visible in the Distance: ?Goodrich Castle on the River Wye 1798

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Looking along a River between High Wooded Banks, with a Large Castle just Visible in the Distance: ?Goodrich Castle on the River Wye’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Looking along a River between High Wooded Banks, with a Large Castle just Visible in the Distance: ?Goodrich Castle on the River Wye 1798
D01671
Turner Bequest XLI 38
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 270 x 457 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in black ink ‘95’ bottom left
Inscribed in pencil ink ‘38’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLI – 38’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject may be Goodrich Castle above the River Wye; see under D01648 (Turner Bequest XLI 18a) for other possible views in this sketchbook.
Technical notes:
The sheet is badly faded from exposure. The bottom right corner has been torn away.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed in a later hand in pencil ‘No 15’ (compare D01632; XLI 4).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Looking along a River between High Wooded Banks, with a Large Castle just Visible in the Distance: ?Goodrich Castle on the River Wye 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-looking-along-a-river-between-high-wooded-banks-with-a-large-r1173285, accessed 26 April 2024.