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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View from Drws y Coed towards Nantlle and Pengroes 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View from Drws y Coed towards Nantlle and Pengroes’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 103 Recto:
View from Drws y Coed towards Nantlle and Pengroes 1799
D02146
Turner Bequest XLVI 103
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a yellow ground, 79 x 130 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?Quathlynn]’ top centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘103’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XLVI – 103’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s inscription on this drawing, made with the page turned horizontally, is almost illegible; it was transcribed by Finberg as ‘Quathlynn’, interpreted as Llyn Cwellyn.1 Drws y Coed is the pass that runs between Mynydd Mawr and Y Garn, and Turner draws the view looking west towards the coastal plain, with Llyn Nantlle in the distance and the small town of Penegroes beyond. Llyn Cwellyn lies behind Mynydd Mawr, at the head of this defile. See the drawing on folio 64 verso (D02095), which shows Mynydd Mawr and Drws y Coed from above, on the slopes of Snowdon.
There is a separate study of a mountain at the top right.
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Finberg 1909, I, p.117.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View from Drws y Coed towards Nantlle and Pengroes 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-view-from-drws-y-coed-towards-nantlle-and-pengroes-r1180005, accessed 26 April 2024.