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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Colour Study: Llanberis Lake and Snowdon c.1799-1800

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Colour Study: Llanberis Lake and Snowdon’ c.1799-1800
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Colour Study: Llanberis Lake and Snowdon c.1799–1800
D04182
Turner Bequest LXX e
Wash on white wove paper, 547 x 765 mm
Blind-stamped lower right with Turner Bequest monogram
Watermark ‘J WHATMAN 1794’
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of the ‘colour beginnings’ that Finberg thought showed Llyn Cwellyn,1 but which are in fact preparatory studies for the group of views looking across Lake Llanberis towards Dolbadarn Castle and Snowdon (see Tate D04175 and D04176; TB LXX X, Y). Other beginnings in the sequence are Tate D04180 and D04181 (Turner Bequest LXX c, d).
1
Finberg 1909, I, p.177.
Technical notes:
There are smears of colour at edge, unrelated to the mauve of the main study, including a large field of gamboge (deep yellow).
Verso:
Blank

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Colour Study: Llanberis Lake and Snowdon c.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-colour-study-llanberis-lake-and-snowdon-r1180052, accessed 26 April 2024.