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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Pass of Aberglaslyn 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Pass of Aberglaslyn’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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The Pass of Aberglaslyn 1799
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Turner Bequest XLVI 15a
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a pale buff ground, 79 x 130 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Aberglas[?lyn]’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a very slight and rapid sketch, made with the page turned horizontally, presumably from a moving vehicle or on horseback. For more developed wash drawings of Aberglaslyn see the contemporary Lancashire and North Wales sketchbook (Tate D01920, D01987, D01990; Turner Bequest XLV 7a, 47, 50).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Pass of Aberglaslyn 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-the-pass-of-aberglaslyn-r1179874, accessed 08 July 2024.