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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Caernarvon Castle from the South, with Shipping 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Caernarvon Castle from the South, with Shipping’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Caernarvon Castle from the South, with Shipping 1799
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Turner Bequest XLV 26a
Pencil on white wove paper, 225 x 329 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this is a view looking across the River Seiont to the southern walls of Caernarvon Castle, with, from left to right, the Eagle Tower, the Queen’s Tower and the Chamberlain’s Tower. Turner had already submitted a heroic view of Caernarvon from the estuary, with a westering sun, to the Royal Academy’s exhibition in this year, 1799 (private collection),1 and had made a small oil sketch of a similar composition (Tate N01867);2 a panorama including Caernarvon Castle seen at a distance was to appear at the Academy in 1800 (Tate D04164; Turner Bequest LXX M).3

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.328 no.254, pl.47 (colour).
2
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.22–3 no.28, pl.23 (colour).
3
Wilton 1979, p.329 no.263, pl.52.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Caernarvon Castle from the South, with Shipping 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-south-with-shipping-r1177826, accessed 24 April 2024.