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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > France, Savoy, Piedmont Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The River Arve at Geneva 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The River Arve at Geneva’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 40 Recto:
The River Arve at Geneva 1802
D04434
Turner Bequest LXXIII 40
Pencil on grey-buff laid paper, 138 x 215 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘The Aar’ bottom right
Numbered by a later hand in pencil ‘40’ and stamped in black ‘LXXIII 40’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Geneva see especially folio 5 of this sketchbook (D04397), and also folios 35 and 41–4 (D04427, D04435–D04438). Here, Turner has walked from the city centre along the River Rhône to its junction with the Arve, the subject of this sketch. For another sketch near the confluence of the rivers, effectively the continuation of the present view, see folio 41 (D04435). Turner drew similar views in his Val d’Aosta sketchbook in 1836 (Tate D29139, D29143, D29144; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 54a, 57, 57a). David Hill has published these along with his own photograph of the subject.1
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David Hill, Joseph Mallord William Turner: Le Mont-Blanc et la Vallée d’Aoste, exhibition catalogue, Museo Archeologico Regionale, Aosta 2000, p.104.
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David Blayney Brown
June 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The River Arve at Geneva 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2004, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-river-arve-at-geneva-r1133063, accessed 25 April 2024.