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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Beaumaris Castle: The Gatehouse 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Beaumaris Castle: The Gatehouse’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Recto:
Beaumaris Castle: The Gatehouse 1799
D01913
Turner Bequest XLV 2
Pencil on white wove paper, 225 x 329 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘2’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XLV-2’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the beginning of a drawing, made with the page turned horizontally; Turner made a more developed study of Beaumaris on the following page, folio 3 recto (D01914).
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Beaumaris Castle: The Gatehouse 1799 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 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-beaumaris-castle-the-gatehouse-r1177788, accessed 25 April 2024.