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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches of Geneva from the Harbour 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches of Geneva from the Harbour’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Recto:
Three Sketches of Geneva from the Harbour 1836
D29132
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 51
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘51’ bottom left, inverted, and ‘320’ top left, inverted
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 51’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches, drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in the sketchbook:
i. (main sketch, above) The left section of a two-part panorama of the quay and lake front at Geneva as seen from the harbour, panning here from the Cathedral to the mouth of the River Rhône, and continuing to the right on the opposite page (D29131; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 50a) to include the Hotel des Bergues.
ii. (middle) The left section of a two-part panorama of Geneva as seen from the harbour, a closer view than than that recorded (i) and from slightly further left, and continued to the right in (iii) below, to pan across the mouth of the Rhône.
iii. (bottom) The right section of a two-part panorama of Geneva as seen from the harbour, continued to the right from (ii) above.
For notes on the Rhône at Geneva see D29140; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 55 in this sketchbook.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Three Sketches of Geneva from the Harbour 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-of-geneva-from-the-harbour-r1144678, accessed 26 April 2024.