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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Town with a Ruined Gateway and Castle Keep: ?Denbigh 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Town with a Ruined Gateway and Castle Keep: ?Denbigh’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Recto:
A Town with a Ruined Gateway and Castle Keep: ?Denbigh 1798
D01389
Turner Bequest XXXIX 34
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 170 x 266 mm
Part watermark ‘1794’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘34’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXXIX 34’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This appears to be a view of Denbigh from the west, drawn with the page turned horizontally. The ruined gatehouse was to be the subject of an exceptionally large watercolour study (Tate D04186; Turner Bequest LXX i), though no finished work appears to have materialised.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Town with a Ruined Gateway and Castle Keep: ?Denbigh 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-a-town-with-a-ruined-gateway-and-castle-keep-denbigh-r1173618, accessed 19 April 2024.