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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of the Castle of Chillon 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of the Castle of Chillon’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 43 Recto:
Two Sketches of the Castle of Chillon 1836
D29116
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 43
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘43’ top right and ‘320’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 43’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches:

i. (main sketch) The Castle of Chillon from the east, the sun setting directly above. Turner sketched the same view on his first visit to the area in 1802 (Tate D04574; Turner Bequest LXXIV 81), when his treatment of the subject was considerably less inclusive.
ii. (above left) Chillon from the east; a more distant view, continued to the left on the opposite page (D29115; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 42a).

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches of the Castle of Chillon 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-of-the-castle-of-chillon-r1144662, accessed 25 April 2024.