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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View across a Valley towards Cader Idris ?1799-1800

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View across a Valley towards Cader Idris’ ?1799-1800
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
View across a Valley towards Cader Idris ?1799–1800
D04187
Turner Bequest LXX j
Pencil and watercolour with stopping-out, 667 x 843 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman 1794’
Inscribed in red ink ‘lxx.j’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXX – j’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Apparently derived from a drawing in the 1798 Hereford Court sketchbook (Tate D01352; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 98), this large study is a preparatory essay for the watercolour known as Cader Idris,1 of which there is a second version.2 Both study and finished works may date from slightly earlier than 1799, and this sheet, with its bold stopping- and lifting-out and layering of soft transparent colours, can be grouped with a Dolbadarn Castle study (Tate D04166; Turner Bequest LXX O) and another of Moel Hebog from above Llyn Dinas (Tate D01115; Turner Bequest XXXVI U).
1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.328 no.259, reproduced, and pl.49 (colour detail).
2
Ibid., no.260.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View across a Valley towards Cader Idris ?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-view-across-a-valley-towards-cader-idris-r1180048, accessed 20 April 2024.