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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A River Winding between Crags, with Mountains in the Distance 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A River Winding between Crags, with Mountains in the Distance’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
A River Winding between Crags, with Mountains in the Distance 1798
D01370
Turner Bequest XXXIX 15
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 170 x 266 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘15’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXXIX 15’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, this is probably another view in the same valley as appears in the drawing on the preceding page, folio 14 recto (D01369). The jagged cliffs in the middle distance may be abandoned slate quarries, and Finberg proposed that the view is ‘Probably between Ffestiniog and Harlech’, though he later thought not.1 Ffestiniog was the centre of the slate quarrying industry.
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A.J. Finberg, undated MS note to interleaved copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, I, p.90.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A River Winding between Crags, with Mountains in the Distance 1798 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 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-river-winding-between-crags-with-mountains-in-the-distance-r1173597, accessed 22 November 2024.