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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches at Vevey 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches at Vevey’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Recto:
Two Sketches at Vevey 1836
D29064
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 17
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘W V Green L’ bottom right
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘17’ top right and ‘320’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 17’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches:
i. (main sketch) Vevey from the landing-place, with the Grande Place at the left, the Cathedral of St Martin above, and a tower (?La Tour Carrée) beyond; to the right is La Tour de Peilz. This is a more distant view than appears on the opposite page (D29063; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 16a), but closer than that preceding it (D29061; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 15a). Turner sketched a similar subject on his first visit to Vevey in 1802 (Tate D04535; Turner Bequest LXXIV 42), and also on a later visit in 1841 (Tate D33477, D33491; Turner Bequest CCCXXXII 7, 21).
ii. (along top edge, inverted) Mountain profile.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches at Vevey 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-two-sketches-at-vevey-r1144613, accessed 20 September 2024.