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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches at Bonneville 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches at Bonneville’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Verso:
Three Sketches at Bonneville 1836
D29099
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 34a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches:
i. (main sketch, right, inverted in relation to main numbered series of subjects in the sketchbook) Bonneville from downstream on the River Arve; the continuation to the right of the sketch on D29097; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 33a, preceding.
ii. (centre of page, drawn with the sketchbook held upright) Bonneville from behind the chateau, looking across the bridge and monument to the Pic de Jallouvre in the left distance
iii. (bottom of page, with the sketchbook held upright) At Bonneville, looking across the bridge to the monument.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Three Sketches at Bonneville 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-bonneville-r1144646, accessed 24 April 2024.