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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Abergavenny: General View with the Castle and Sugar Loaf Beyond 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Abergavenny: General View with the Castle and Sugar Loaf Beyond’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Recto:
Abergavenny: General View with the Castle and Sugar Loaf Beyond 1798
D01495
Turner Bequest XL 20
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘20’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XL – 20’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing continues on folio 19 verso (Tate D01494; Turner Bequest XL 19a), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Abergavenny: General View with the Castle and Sugar Loaf Beyond 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-abergavenny-general-view-with-the-castle-and-sugar-loaf-r1173734, accessed 26 April 2024.