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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Ship in a Bay with a Large Castle c.1799-1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Ship in a Bay with a Large Castle’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 88 Recto:
A Ship in a Bay with a Large Castle c.1799–1802
D04103
Turner Bequest LXIX 89
Ink, wash and white gouache on blue laid paper, 135 x 210 mm
Watermark: Strasburg lily (trimmed)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘89’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXIX-89’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, like the drawing on folio 87 recto (D04102; Turner Bequest LXIX 88) this is a composition study related by Finberg1 to the Pembroke Castle watercolours of 1801 and 1806 (National Museum Wales, Cardiff; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto;2 see under folio 1 recto; D03994), but possibly intended to show Caernarvon Castle, though the architecture closely resembles neither Pembroke nor Caernarvon.
1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.172.
2
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.331 nos.280, 281, the latter reproduced.
Verso:
Blank

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Ship in a Bay with a Large Castle c.1799–1802 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-a-ship-in-a-bay-with-a-large-castle-r1177981, accessed 10 May 2024.