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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Valley of the Glaslyn near Beddgelert, with Dinas Emrys 1799

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Valley of the Glaslyn near Beddgelert, with Dinas Emrys’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The Valley of the Glaslyn near Beddgelert, with Dinas Emrys 1799
D03645
Turner Bequest LX a D
Pencil on white wove paper, 548 x 762 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Watermark ‘J Whatman 1794’
Inscribed in pencil ‘lx(a).D’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LX (a) – D’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg thought this a Lake District subject, calling it ‘Near Great Gable (?)’.1 He listed a second drawing with identical title, dimensions and watermark as Turner Bequest LX a E.2 That sheet has been missing for many years (although it was initially allocated Tate accession number D03646), and may have been lost in the Tate Gallery flood of 1928; it was presumably related to the present view.
1
Finberg 1909, I, p.162.
2
Ibid.
Technical notes:
There are traces of a vertical centre fold, and a red paint smear at the bottom centre.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

Revised by Matthew Imms
February 2015

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Valley of the Glaslyn near Beddgelert, with Dinas Emrys 1799 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, revised by Matthew Imms, February 2015, 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-valley-of-the-glaslyn-near-beddgelert-with-dinas-emrys-r1180057, accessed 21 November 2024.