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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tretwr Castle 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tretwr Castle’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Verso:
Tretwr Castle 1798
D01506
Turner Bequest XL 25a
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘68’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘XL – 25 a’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Tretwr, or Tretower, is on the Rhiangoll, a tributary of the Usk, just north of Crickhowell where Turner made a drawing on folios 25 verso–26 recto (D01502–D01503; Turner Bequest XL 23a–24). Another sketch of the same place is on folios 29 verso–30 recto (D01510–D01511; Turner Bequest XL 27a–28).
The castle at Tretwr was extensively enlarged in stone during the early thirteenth century by Roger Picard and his son John; it ceased to be occupied in the fourteenth century and has since been largely destroyed, but the central tower remains to dominate any view of the ruins. The subject is continued on folio 28 recto opposite (D01507; Turner Bequest XL 26).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Tretwr Castle 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-tretwr-castle-r1173745, accessed 25 April 2024.