Graphite and watercolour on paper
Welsh, Isle of Wight and Other Subjects
Welsh, Isle of Wight and Other Subjects
Wales and Isle of Wight 1795-1800
Wales and Isle of Wight 1795-1800
Vale of Glamorgan
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Llandaff West Front Cathedral
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
adults
architecture
cathedral
dance
fine arts and music
Gothic
gravestone / tomb
graveyard
holding hands
instrument, violin
leisure and pastimes
Llandaff, Llandaff Cathedral
man
medieval
music
music and entertainment
objects
people
periods and styles
places
reclining
religious
religious
religious and ceremonial
ruins
sitting
standing
townscapes / man-made features
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
Vale of Glamorgan
Wales
woman
yew
<p>Turner shows several figures in a graveyard. Two girls are dancing on a tombstone to a fiddler's tune. Turner's use of such a motif in this context is a telling allusion to Time and the contrast between Life and Death. Through it, Turner links himself to a tradition of graveyard meditations which embraces Edward Young and Thomas Gray (no.48). With Turner, as with Blake (see no.49), the way this tradition could inform the Romantic sensibility and even touch life itself can be seen in both artist's associations with Westminster Abbey. In a 1793 watercolour of the interior of the Abbey, Turner's signature is put as an inscription on a floor slab as though it is his own tombstone.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour
28 May 2018 – 4 October 2020
2020-10-04
28 May 2018 – 4 October 2020
2020-10-04
2018-05-28
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2018-05-28
Turner and Gothic Cathedrals
Collection based display
Llandaff: The West Front of the Cathedral
support: 356 × 255 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>Turner shows several figures in a graveyard. Two girls are dancing on a tombstone to a fiddler's tune. Turner's use of such a motif in this context is a telling allusion to Time and the contrast between Life and Death. Through it, Turner links himself to a tradition of graveyard meditations which embraces Edward Young and Thomas Gray (no.48). With Turner, as with Blake (see no.49), the way this tradition could inform the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/romanticism" title="Glossary definition for 'Romanticism'"><span>Romantic</span></a> sensibility and even touch life itself can be seen in both artist's associations with Westminster Abbey. In a 1793 <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a> of the interior of the Abbey, Turner's signature is put as an inscription on a floor slab as though it is his own tombstone.</p>
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actions: expressive actions: postures and motions adults architecture cathedral dance fine arts and music Gothic gravestone / tomb graveyard holding hands instrument, violin leisure and pastimes Llandaff, Llandaff Cathedral man medieval music music and entertainment objects people periods and styles places reclining religious religious religious and ceremonial ruins sitting standing townscapes / man-made features UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions Vale of Glamorgan Wales woman yew
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