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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches at St Gingolph 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
Three Sketches at St Gingolph 1836
D29066
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 18
Pencil on white wove paper, 190 x 113 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil, ‘St Gin’ (twice) right
Inscribed by an unknown hand with name and address (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘18’ top left, running vertically, and ‘320’, top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 18’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains an inscription and three sketches, made with the sketchbook held upright:
i. Inscribed, not in Turner’s hand, ‘George Lasseur | Che[z] Mr Waibert | Maitre Voyturier | Vevay’, presumably noting a recommendation of a carrier at Vevey.
ii. A road running east along the south shore of Lake Geneva from near St Gingolph, and looking towards the Dents du Midi, inscribed ‘St Gin’ on the road in the right foreground.
iii. St Gingolph from Lake Geneva, the village backed by mountains, inscribed ‘St Goin’ above to the right.
iv. View over Lake Geneva from behind St Gingolph.
St Gingolph is on the south shore of Lake Geneva, opposite Vevey. Presumably Turner took a boat there from Vevey.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Three Sketches at St Gingolph 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-three-sketches-at-st-gingolph-r1144615, accessed 28 March 2024.