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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Gatehouse of Denbigh Castle: Colour Study c.1799-1800

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Gatehouse of Denbigh Castle: Colour Study’ c.1799-1800
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The Gatehouse of Denbigh Castle: Colour Study c.1799–1800
D04186
Turner Bequest LXX i
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 673 x 1005 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman 1794’
Inscribed in red ink ‘lxx.i’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXX – i’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is an exceptionally bold lay-in, which does not seem to depend on any drawing of Turner’s, although he certainly visited Denbigh on his 1798 tour to Wales (see the North Wales sketchbook; Tate D01389; Turner Bequest XXXIX 34), and possibly returned there in 1799. The present author has suggested that he may have made use of a published view of Denbigh Castle Gatehouse by Moses Griffith, which appeared in Thomas Pennant’s Journey to Snowdon (1781), facing page 36.1
1
Wilton 1984, p.68.
Technical notes:
The sheet has been folded horizontally and vertically, and is stained and torn.
Verso:
Blank

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Gatehouse of Denbigh Castle: Colour Study c.1799–1800 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-gatehouse-of-denbigh-castle-colour-study-r1180046, accessed 17 July 2024.