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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Caernarvon Castle from the North-West 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Caernarvon Castle from the North-West’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Verso:
Caernarvon Castle from the North-West 1799
D01941
Turner Bequest XLV 21a
Pencil on white wove paper, 225 x 329 mm
Blind-stamped lower centre with Turner Bequest monogram
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner shows the castle from across the Menai Strait with Mynydd Perfedd and Moel Eilio beyond. There are further drawings of Caernarvon on the versos of folios 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26 (D01943, D01945, D01947, D01949, D01951). See also the slight sketch on folio 5 verso (D01917). This and the two following drawings, D01943 and D01945, were apparently made from a boat in the Strait; the remainder were drawn in the estuary of the Seiont, looking roughly west.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Caernarvon Castle from the North-West 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-caernarvon-castle-from-the-north-west-r1177816, accessed 11 May 2024.