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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Wales and Isle of Wight 1795-1800 > Smaller South Wales Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner View at Margam, between Bridgend and Port Talbot, Glamorgan 1795

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View at Margam, between Bridgend and Port Talbot, Glamorgan’ 1795
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Recto:
View at Margam, between Bridgend and Port Talbot, Glamorgan 1795
D00473
Turner Bequest XXV 12
Pencil on white wove paper, 130 x 205 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Margam Hill’ bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘12’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXV 12’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view shows the road down to the estuary of the River Neath and Swansea Bay, at Port Talbot (Aberavon). Margam is noted in the itinerary written into the South Wales sketchbook as being of interest for ‘An Abbey & Chapter House the Church & Monuments – An Old Saxon Cross in the Village’ (Tate D40554; Turner Bequest XXVI [recto of first flyleaf]). For another view of the bay from farther down the hill see folio 14 recto (D00475).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View at Margam, between Bridgend and Port Talbot, Glamorgan 1795 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-view-at-margam-between-bridgend-and-port-talbot-glamorgan-r1140792, accessed 17 July 2024.