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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Val d'Aosta Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Sketches at or near Bonneville Including One of Mont Salève 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Sketches at or near Bonneville Including One of Mont Salève’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Recto:
Four Sketches at or near Bonneville Including One of Mont Salève 1836
D29088
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 29
Pencil on white wove paper, 190 x 113 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Mt Saleve’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘29’ top left, running vertically, and ‘320’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 29’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains four sketches in the Arve Valley near Bonneville, made with the page in the upright position, working down the page from the outside edge:
i. Bonneville, monument and bridge, from upstream on the left bank
ii. The same from further right.
iii. The same from still further right.
iv. ‘Mt Saleve’ perhaps from near Bonneville.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Four Sketches at or near Bonneville Including One of Mont Salève 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-at-or-near-bonneville-including-one-of-mont-r1144637, accessed 24 April 2024.