Turner in Wales

By Andrew Wilton

This book was published by the Mostyn Art Gallery in 1984 as an essay and catalogue relating to the 'Turner in Wales' Project.

I quote;

 " ...........the project is in many ways the culmination of a series of important exhibitions undertaken by the Gallery which have revealed the wealth of arts and crafts produced in Wales, past and present............"

This page on Genuki is simply a listing of the watercolours and drawings that are actually reproduced in the book
The description title lines (including ?s) are as in the book, with the relevant page number, the entries are in the same order as in the book
(Gareth Hicks June 2008)

**My copy of this book was deposited with Glamorgan FHS in April 2022

J M W Turner on wikipedia

Introduction (first paragraph only)

As an inspiration for his art, Wales belongs very much to the first ten years of Turner's career, the decade from 1790, when he first showed a watercolour at the Royal Academy, to 1800 when, having already been elected a very young Associate of that Institution, he was on the threshold of Full Academicianship. He visited Wales five times in eight years: with the except of a brief excursion along  the Dee to Corwen in 1808 he never went there again. He was to draw on these early tours occasionally in later life -  notably for a group of sixteen subjects in the long series of Picturesque Views In England and Wales that he produced in the 1820s and 30s.

But in the great mass of his output from 1800 onwards Welsh subjects are rare, a state of affairs that contrasts startingly with the wealth of Cambrian drawings, watercolours and oil paintings of the 1790s. These are works of a richness and vitality,  a readiness of inspiration and a fecundity of technical invention, that rival those of any other period of his life, and they must count among the most intent of all romantic landscapes............................