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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Valley of the Glaslyn near Beddgelert, with Dinas Emrys c.1799-1800

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Valley of the Glaslyn near Beddgelert, with Dinas Emrys’ c.1799-1800
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The Valley of the Glaslyn near Beddgelert, with Dinas Emrys c.1799–1800
D03643
Turner Bequest LX a B
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 556 x 765 mm
Stamped in black ‘LX (a) – B’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view is based on a drawing in the contemporary Dolbadarn sketchbook (Tate D02151; Turner Bequest XLVI 106), which is annotated by Turner ‘Snowdon | from Beddgelert’.
The sheet is inadvertently recorded twice in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory, being listed also as Turner Bequest XXXVI K;1 a corresponding Tate accession number (D01105) was assigned and subsequently cancelled.
1
Finberg 1909, I, p.78, as ‘Skiddaw from Derwentwater’, c.1797.
Technical notes:
There are traces of a vertical centre fold. The sheet is creased and mould-stained; its condition may be owing to the Tate Gallery flood of 1928, but it is possible that some of the damage occurred in the studio. Although the large sheets in the present subsection all have a centre fold, caused by the method of drying over a rope at the paper mill, the central crease in this case seems to have been inflicted by accident. This may be the reason why Turner made a second version of the subject, which he took to a somewhat higher state of finish (Tate D04178; Turner Bequest LXX a).
Verso:
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Valley of the Glaslyn near Beddgelert, with Dinas Emrys 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-the-valley-of-the-glaslyn-near-beddgelert-with-dinas-emrys-r1180055, accessed 26 April 2024.