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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Mountains between Llanberis and Nant Ffrancon 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mountains between Llanberis and Nant Ffrancon’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 82 Verso:
Mountains between Llanberis and Nant Ffrancon 1799
D02119
Turner Bequest XLVI 82a
Pencil on white wove paper, 79 x 130 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Between Llanberis – Llanfranco’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As Finberg suggests,1 the last word of Turner’s inscription may indicate Nant Ffrancon. There is no direct road between Llanberis and the Pass of Nant Ffrancon, but it is possible that Turner walked over the flank of Elidir Fawr from one pass to the other; he certainly seems to have climbed at least part of the way up that mountain, as is suggested by the drawings on folios 19 verso, 20 recto and 20 verso (D02023–D02025).
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Finberg 1909, I, p.117.
Technical notes:
There are some smears of grey and brown from folio 83 recto opposite (D02120).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Mountains between Llanberis and Nant Ffrancon 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-mountains-between-llanberis-and-nant-ffrancon-r1179978, accessed 26 April 2024.