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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Llandeilo, from the Opposite Bank of the Tywi 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Llandeilo, from the Opposite Bank of the Tywi’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 53 Verso:
Llandeilo, from the Opposite Bank of the Tywi 1798
D01548
Turner Bequest XL 51a
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘42’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘XL – 51 a’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner exhibited a view of Llandilo Bridge and Dinevor Castle at the Royal Academy in 1796 (National Museum Wales, Cardiff),1 basing his design on drawings taken when he was in South Wales in 1795, although these have not been identified. In that year the bridge had been damaged and was roughly repaired with a timber framework; the framework is indicated in this drawing, which continues on folio 54 recto opposite (D01549; Turner Bequest XL 52).
On this 1798 tour Turner returned to the subject of his 1796 watercolour in a new drawing of the bridge, looking towards Dynevor, in the Hereford Court sketchbook (Tate D01271; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 21).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.315 no.140, reproduced.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Llandeilo, from the Opposite Bank of the Tywi 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-llandeilo-from-the-opposite-bank-of-the-tywi-r1173787, accessed 19 September 2024.