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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Rhuddlan: The Church and Castle Seen from the West Bank of the River Clwyd 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rhuddlan: The Church and Castle Seen from the West Bank of the River Clwyd’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Recto:
Rhuddlan: The Church and Castle Seen from the West Bank of the River Clwyd 1798
D01398
Turner Bequest XXXIX 43
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 170 x 266 mm
Blind-stamped bottom centre with Turner Bequest monogram
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘43’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXXIX 43’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Another view of Rhuddlan is on folio 93 verso (Tate D01452; Turner Bequest XXXIX 88v).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Rhuddlan: The Church and Castle Seen from the West Bank of the River Clwyd 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-rhuddlan-the-church-and-castle-seen-from-the-west-bank-of-r1173630, accessed 26 December 2024.