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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Sketches: From above Lausanne; Three Views on Lake Geneva from off Vevey and Montreux 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Sketches: From above Lausanne; Three Views on Lake Geneva from off Vevey and Montreux’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 46 Recto:
Four Sketches: From above Lausanne; Three Views on Lake Geneva from off Vevey and Montreux 1836
D29122
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 46
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘S S’, ‘Dk [....]d’, ‘Sun’,‘C’,‘M’,‘C’.
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘46’ top right and ‘320’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 46’ bottom right
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCXCIII. 46’ along lower edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains four sketches:
i. (left, main sketch, inverted in relation to the others) The continuation to the left of the panorama of Lausanne from the north-west begun on the opposite page (D29121; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 45). Two distant peaks are capped with ‘S[now?]’.
ii. (top) A panorama at the head of Lake Geneva, the northern shore from off Vevey, with morning sun indicated above to the right. Inscribed ‘Dk [....]d’, ‘Sun’.
iii. The same, the southern shore. Inscribed ‘C’, ‘M’, ‘C’.
iv. Towards Chillon and Villeneuve from off Montreux.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Four Sketches: From above Lausanne; Three Views on Lake Geneva from off Vevey and Montreux 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-four-sketches-from-above-lausanne-three-views-on-lake-geneva-r1144668, accessed 25 April 2024.