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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Citadel of Lausanne and the Lake of Geneva 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Citadel of Lausanne and the Lake of Geneva’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 46 Verso:
The Citadel of Lausanne and the Lake of Geneva 1836
D29123
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 46a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn inverted in relation to main numbered sequence of subjects in this sketchbook, this is the right section of a two-part panorama of the citadel of Lausanne from the north-west, in the vicinity of the Rue du Valentin with Lake Geneva beyond to the right, continued from the opposite page (D29124; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 47). The view is closer and very much more detailed than in the preceding double-spread (D29121–D19122; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 45a–46). Today the view across the Place de la Riponne is swamped by the huge Palais de Rumine, at the foot of the citadel and almost as large again, built in the early 1900s to house the University, Library and Museums.
For the full tour of the First Loan Collection see Warrell 1991, p.39.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Citadel of Lausanne and the Lake of Geneva 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-the-citadel-of-lausanne-and-the-lake-of-geneva-r1144669, accessed 19 April 2024.