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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Mountains round Beddgelert Seen across Traeth Bach, through a Screen of Trees 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Mountains round Beddgelert Seen across Traeth Bach, through a Screen of Trees’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Recto:
The Mountains round Beddgelert Seen across Traeth Bach, through a Screen of Trees 1798
D01372
Turner Bequest XXXIX 17
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 170 x 266 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘17’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXXIX 17’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The present identification of the subject, drawn with the page turned horizontally, is conjectural; the landscape painter John Doyle has suggested that the view shows Moel Hebog and the hills around Beddgelert from Llyn Dinas.1 A colour study based on this drawing is Tate D01115 (Turner Bequest XXXVI U).
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Personal communication.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Mountains round Beddgelert Seen across Traeth Bach, through a Screen of Trees 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-the-mountains-round-beddgelert-seen-across-traeth-bach-r1173599, accessed 17 July 2024.