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
Carmarthenshire
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
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Llanstephan Castle by Moonlight with a Kiln in Foreground
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
architecture
astronomy
boat, sailing
Carmarthenshire
castle
estuary
fire
group
groups
hill
industrial
industrial and crafts
industrial worker
kiln
landscape
Llanstephan, Llanstephan Castle
man
military
moonlight
natural phenomena
night
people
places
River Tywi
smoke
society
times of the day
transport: water
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
UK natural features
Wales
water: inland
work and occupations
<p>Lime was produced by heating and calcinating limestone in a kiln. It was used for construction, agriculture and, when burned with charcoal, iron-smelting. Often small-scale independent ventures, lime kilns sprang up wherever the stone could be quarried. Turner saw this lime kiln beside the river Tywi near Llansteffan Castle during a tour of South Wales in 1795. He contrasts modern industry with picturesque scenery. Kilns and furnaces glow in the moonlit night.</p><p><em>Gallery label, October 2022</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour
2 June 2011 – 22 April 2012
2012-04-22
2 June 2011 – 11 September 2011
2011-09-11
2011-06-02
Bucerius Kunst Forum (Hamburg, Germany)
http://www.buceriuskunstforum.de
1 October 2011 – 8 January 2012
2012-01-08
2011-10-01
National Museum (Krakow, Poland)
28 January 2012 – 22 April 2012
2012-04-22
2012-01-28
Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK)
2011-06-02
Turner and the Elements
Loan-out
28 October 2020 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
28 October 2020 – 12 September 2021
2021-09-12
2020-10-28
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
17 October 2021 – 6 February 2022
2022-02-06
2021-10-17
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, USA)
http://www.kimbellart.org
27 March 2022 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
2022-03-27
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA)
http://www.mfa.org
2020-10-28
Turner's Modern World
Exhibition
17 October 2021 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
17 October 2021 – 6 February 2022
2022-02-06
2021-10-17
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, USA)
http://www.kimbellart.org
27 March 2022 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
2022-03-27
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA)
http://www.mfa.org
2021-10-17
Turner's Modern World
Loan-out
Llanstephan Castle by Moonlight, with a Kiln in the Foreground
support: 213 × 281 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
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<p>Lime was produced by heating and calcinating limestone in a kiln. It was used for construction, agriculture and, when burned with charcoal, iron-smelting. Often small-scale independent ventures, lime kilns sprang up wherever the stone could be quarried. Turner saw this lime kiln beside the river Tywi near Llansteffan Castle during a tour of South Wales in 1795. He contrasts modern industry with picturesque scenery. Kilns and furnaces glow in the moonlit night.</p>
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adults architecture astronomy boat, sailing Carmarthenshire castle estuary fire group groups hill industrial industrial and crafts industrial worker kiln landscape Llanstephan, Llanstephan Castle man military moonlight natural phenomena night people places River Tywi smoke society times of the day transport: water UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions UK natural features Wales water: inland work and occupations
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