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 Rocks under a Cliff, with a Stream Falling into a Narrow Channel 1798

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rocks under a Cliff, with a Stream Falling into a Narrow Channel’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Rocks under a Cliff, with a Stream Falling into a Narrow Channel 1798
D01675
Turner Bequest XLI 42
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 294 x 459 mm
Watermark ‘1794 | J Whatman’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in brown ink ‘42’ bottom left
Inscribed in pencil ‘42’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLI – 42’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This may be a detail of the rocks at Aberdulais; Turner had made drawings there in 1795 and produced a finished watercolour of the mill, with its backdrop of huge rocks, cliffs and waterfalls, in the following year or shortly after (National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, W.169a).1
1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.489 no.169a, reproduced.
Technical notes:
Although the watercolour in this sheet is somewhat faded it is much less so than, for example, Tate D01669 and D01670 (Turner Bequest XLI 36, 37) in this sketchbook.
Verso:
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Rocks under a Cliff, with a Stream Falling into a Narrow Channel 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-rocks-under-a-cliff-with-a-stream-falling-into-a-narrow-r1173289, accessed 19 April 2024.