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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Looking West from Beeston Castle towards the Welsh Hills, with Wrexham in the Left Distance 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Looking West from Beeston Castle towards the Welsh Hills, with Wrexham in the Left Distance’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 70 Recto:
Looking West from Beeston Castle towards the Welsh Hills, with Wrexham in the Left Distance 1801
D05149
Turner Bequest LXXXII 70
Pencil on white wove paper, 161 x 256 mm
Blind–stamped with Turner Bequest monogram below right of centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘70’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXXXII – 70’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. The tall tower carefully indicated in the left distance of this view from Beeston Castle is most probably that of St Giles’s Church, Wrexham. The hills beyond are the Clwyd range; a group of peaks crowns the ridge to the west of the town, Eglwyseg Mountain being the highest.
Several preceding drawings show Beeston Castle itself; see under folio 60 recto (D05139).
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Looking West from Beeston Castle towards the Welsh Hills, with Wrexham in the Left Distance 1801 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-looking-west-from-beeston-castle-towards-the-welsh-hills-r1178718, accessed 26 April 2024.