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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Carreg Cennen Castle from the West 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Carreg Cennen Castle from the West’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Verso:
Distant View of Carreg Cennen Castle from the West 1798
D01529
Turner Bequest XL 39a
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Watermark ‘1794 | J Whatman’
Inscribed in red ink ‘54’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XL – 39 a’ top right, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the view is taken from near the hamlet of Trapp, on the Afon Cennen at the junction of two roads over the western extremity of the Black Mountains, leading to Llandeilo; see folios 53 verso–52 recto (D01548–D01549; Turner Bequest XL 51a–52). The present subject is continued on folio 42 recto opposite (D01530; Turner Bequest XL 40).
See also views of Carreg Cennen on folios 39 verso–40 recto and 45 verso–46 recto (D01526–D01527, D01536–D01537; Turner Bequest XL 37a–38, 43a–44).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Distant View of Carreg Cennen Castle from the 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-distant-view-of-carreg-cennen-castle-from-the-west-r1173768, accessed 20 September 2024.