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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Caernarvon Castle from the North 1799

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Verso:
Caernarvon Castle from the North 1799
D01943
Turner Bequest XLV 22a
Pencil on white wove paper, 225 x 329 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram centre right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Like the study on the preceding page, folio 21 verso (D01941), this rapid outline sketch was apparently made from a boat on the Menai Strait. It is a slightly closer view, but the movement of the boat or some other interference prevented its being completed. Turner went on to draw the castle again on the versos of folios 23, 24, 25 and 26 (D01945, D01947, D01949, D01951).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Caernarvon Castle from the North 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-r1177818, accessed 29 March 2024.