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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Yr Aran and Y Wyddfa c.1799-1800

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Yr Aran and Y Wyddfa’ c.1799-1800
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Yr Aran and Y Wyddfa c.1799–1800
D03644
Turner Bequest LX a C
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 548 x 770 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram below right of centre
Stamped in black ‘LX (a) – C’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This subject, formerly thought to show Y Cnicht and Moelwyn Mawr, is in fact a view in the Pass of Aberglaslyn, taken from the slopes of Moel Hebog, with the valley of Cwmbuchan to the right.1 Turner’s precocity in technique and conception in this and other works of this Snowdonia series is pointed up by the curious fact that Gerald Agnew, of the Bond Street art dealers, suggested that the sheet might be attributed to Peter de Wint (1784–1849), a leading member of the next generation of the watercolour school.2
1
Identification by Gareth Lloyd Davies, letter to the author, 31 March 1985.
2
Undated MS note by British Museum curator Edward Croft-Murray in an interleaved copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, I, opposite p.162.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Yr Aran and Y Wyddfa 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-yr-aran-and-y-wyddfa-r1180053, accessed 23 April 2024.