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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Mountains near Beddgelert, with Dinas Emrys c.1799-1800

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Mountains near Beddgelert, with Dinas Emrys c.1799–1800
D04178
Turner Bequest LXX a
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 550 x 767 mm
Blind-stamped lower right with Turner Bequest monogram
Watermark ‘J Whatman 1794’
Inscribed by Turner in brown ink ‘55’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXX – a’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a more evolved version of the large colour sketch, Tate D03643 (Turner Bequest LXX a B); both appear to be based on a sketch in the contemporary Dolbadarn sketchbook (Tate D02151; Turner Bequest XLVI 106). See also a similar view in the 1798 Hereford Court sketchbook (Tate D01345; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 91).
Technical notes:
There are traces of a vertical centre fold.
Verso:
Blank

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Mountains 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-mountains-near-beddgelert-with-dinas-emrys-r1180056, accessed 25 April 2024.