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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Castle Ruins: ?Flint 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Castle Ruins: ?Flint’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Verso:
Castle Ruins: ?Flint 1799
D02012
Turner Bequest XLVI 13a
Pencil on white wove paper, 79 x 130 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The two separate and extremely slight studies here, made with the page turned horizontally, are hard to read, but they apparently show the same castle as that on folio 14 recto opposite (D02013): Flint, on the south shore of the Dee estuary.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Castle Ruins: ?Flint 1799 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-castle-ruins-flint-r1179871, accessed 21 November 2024.