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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Offset from a Study for the Composition of 'Dolbadern Castle, North Wales' c.1799-1800

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Offset from a Study for the Composition of 'Dolbadern Castle, North Wales'’ c.1799-1800
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 79 Verso:
Offset from a Study for the Composition of ‘Dolbadern Castle, North Wales’ c.1799–1800
D40587
Coloured chalks on blue laid paper, 210 x 135 mm
Watermark: Strasburg lily (trimmed)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory,1 this adventitious offset of coloured chalks from the landscape composition on folio 111 recto (D04128; Turner Bequest LXIX 112) indicates that the pages were once bound consecutively.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.172.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Offset from a Study for the Composition of ‘Dolbadern Castle, North Wales’ c.1799–1800 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-offset-from-a-study-for-the-composition-of-dolbadern-castle-r1177970, accessed 16 April 2024.