Harlech Castle, from Tygwyn Ferry, Summer's Evening Twilight
Date:
1799
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
34 1/4 x 47 inches (87 x 119.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.76
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
women | children | landscape | evening | rocks (landforms) | mountains | costume | ships | castle | sea | summer | men
Associated Places:
Harlech Castle | Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire | United Kingdom | Harlech | Cymru | Wales
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03)Art in Focus : Wales (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-04-04 - 2014-08-10)Turner and the Masters (Tate Britain, 2009-09-21 - 2010-01-24)Turner and the Masters (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2010-02-22 - 2010-05-23)J.M.W. Turner (Museum Folkwang, 2001-09-14 - 2002-01-06)J.M.W. Turner (Kunsthaus Zurich, 2002-02-26 - 2002-05-26)This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05)This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06)This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15)Gentle, Rural and Sublime - English Landscape Paintings and Watercolors, 1750-1850 (Denver Art Museum, 1993-12-11 - 1994-02-06)Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)Turner in Wales (Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, 1984-09-22 - 1984-11-17)Turner in Wales (The Mostyn Art Gallery, 1984-07-14 - 1984-09-08)Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)J. M. W. Turner - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1968-10-31 - 1969-04-21)Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
A Great Collection of British Pictures in Virginia, The Times (London), , May 1, 1963, p. 5, Times Digital ArchiveKatharine Baetjer, Glorious nature, British landscape painting, 1750-1850 , Zwemmer publisher, London, 1993, pp. 38-40,180-81, no. 50, ND1354.4 B34 1993 (YCBA)John Baskett, Painting in England: 1700-1850: the Collection of English paintings formed by Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon : on Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, until August 18th, , Connoisseur, Vol. 153, London, June 1963, p. 101, N1 C75 + (YCBA)Mila Boutan, Turner et Moi, RMN Jeunesse, Paris, 2010, p. 22, No copy available at Yale Only locations given in WorldCat (4/21/12) are in France. N.B. This is a book written for a "Juvenile" audienceMartin Butlin, The paintings of J.M.W. Turner, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1984, pp. 6-7, no. 9, pl. 8, NJ18 T85 B885 1984 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 224-225, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Megan Cullen, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850 : [exhibition] label copy. Yale Center for British Art, April 12-June 25, 1989., , Yale Center for British Art, [New Haven, 1989, p. 39, no. 85, ND1354.4 F351 1989 (YCBA)Exhibition catalogue. 1799. 31th, Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, no. 31, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1799, p. 9, no. 192, N5054 A53 v. 2 (YCBA)Exhibition of Works by [ the ] Old Masters and by deceased masters of the British School including a collection of paintings by Albert Cuyp and of works by some English Landscape painters also . . . Winter Exhibition 34th Year, Royal Academy of Arts, 1903, p. 11, no. 29, Fiche B138 (YCBA)Guillaume Faroult, Turner et ses peintres, [expositions], Tate Britain, Londres, 23 septembre 2009-31 janvier 2010 ; galeries nationales, grand palais, Paris, 22 février-24 mai 2010 ; museo nacional del Prado, Madrid, 21 juin-19 septembre 2010 , Editions Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 2010, p. 8, fig. 5, Nj18 T85 F37 2010 (YCBA)A. J. Finberg, The life of J. M. W. Turner, R.A. : with a supplment by Hilda F. Finberg, , Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1961, pp. 56, 461, no. 50, NJ18 T85 F55 1961 (YCBA)Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 67, ND466 G67 (YCBA)Harlech (Now First Produced) by J.M.W. Turner, R.A., Magazine of Art, vol. 2, January 1904, p. 238, N1 M34 + (YCBA) Available online in British Periodical Database.Harlech Castle, North Wales, Art in America, vol. 69, November 1981, p. 152, N1 A43 OVERSIZE (HAAS)Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 28, 130-1, no. II.9, pl. 21, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)Luke Herrmann, The Paul Mellon Collection at Burlington House, Connoisseur, vol. 157, December 1964, p. 218, N1 C75 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)J.M.W. Turner : a selection of paintings from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon., Exhibition held Oct. 31, 1968-Apr. 21, 1969 in the National Gallery of Art , National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1968, pp. 12, 18, no. 3, fig. 3, NJ18 T85 U5 (YCBA)Kay Dian Kriz, The idea of the English landscape painter, genius as Alibi in the early nineteenth-century , The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, Conn., 1997, p. 26, fig. 13, ND1354.5 K75 1997 (YCBA)Peter Lord, The tradition : a new history of Welsh art, 1400-1990, Parthian, Cardigan, 2016, pp. 128, 129, fig. 136, N6792 .L678 2016 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Peter Lord, Visual Culture of Wales : Imaging the Nation, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2000, pp. 157-58, N6792 L675 2000 (YCBA)Julia Marciari-Alexander, This other Eden : Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, p. 86, no. 30, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA)Kathleen Nicholson, Turner, Poetry, and the Transformation of History Painting, Arts Magazine, vol. 56, April 1982, p. 92, N1 A415 OVERSIZE (HAAS)Frederic Ogee, Turner, les paysages absolus , Hazan, Paris, 2010, pp. 78, 132-3, NJ18 T85 O34 2010 (YCBA)On the trail of Turner in North and South Wales., Cadw, Cardiff [Wales], 1995, p. 32, NJ18 T85 O56 1995 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, pp. 88 (v.1), no. 130, pl. 188, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, pp. 50-1 (v.1), no. 183, pl. 60, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 11, no. 85, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA)David H. Solkin, Turner and the masters, Tate Publishing, London, 2009, pp. 21; 42; 98-9, 101, 114-15, pl. 15, NJ18 T85 T8352 2009+ (YCBA)Ian Warrell, Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude, The National Gallery, London, London, 2012, p.69, NJ18 T85 +W365 2012 Oversize (YCBA)Andrew Wilton, The life and work of J.M.W. Turner, Academy Editions, London, 1979, p. 254, No. P9, NJ18 T85 +W577 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Andrew Wilton, Turner in Wales, The Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno (Gwynedd), 1984, p. 60, no. 71, NJ18 T85 W592 (YCBA)Yale Center for British Art, Selected paintings, drawings & books, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1977, p. 36, N590.2 A82 (YCBA)Yale Center for British Art, Wales, New Haven, 2014, pp. 12-13, 21, V2519 (YCBA)Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 54 (v.1), no. 200, pl. 60, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Harlech Castle was constructed by the English king Edward I as part of his conquest of Wales in the thirteenth century. Here it is depicted by J. M. W. Turner, the landscape and history painter, who made five journeys to Wales in the 1790s. Although best known for landscapes incorporating grand mountains and rough oceans, Turner here focuses on the expanse of light and space in the coastal setting of Harlech, capturing a melancholy mood. This particular landscape displays people, albeit in a small scale, which is fitting of the Romantic, grand nature of ruins. A modern shipyard takes center stage, while the castle is seen far in the background. Gallery label for Art in Focus: Wales (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-04-04 - 2014-08-10)