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

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

Joseph Mallord William Turner Craig Cwm Bychan and Llyn Cwellyn from the North-West 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Craig Cwm Bychan and Llyn Cwellyn from the North-West’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Recto:
Craig Cwm Bychan and Llyn Cwellyn from the North-West 1798
D01383
Turner Bequest XXXIX 28
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 170 x 266 mm
Watermark ‘1794 | J Whatman’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘28’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXXIX 28’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, this is a view of the features that appear in the drawing on folio 27 recto (D01382), but from the opposite direction. Other drawings of Llyn Cwellyn are on folios 26 recto and 29 recto (D01381, D01384), and two more are in the contemporary Hereford Court sketchbook (Tate D01330, D01351; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 76, 97).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Craig Cwm Bychan and Llyn Cwellyn from the North-West 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-craig-cwm-bychan-and-llyn-cwellyn-from-the-north-west-r1173611, accessed 19 April 2024.