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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Geneva from the Junction of the Rivers Rhône and Arve 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Geneva from the Junction of the Rivers Rhône and Arve’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 54 Recto:
Geneva from the Junction of the Rivers Rhône and Arve 1836
D29138
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 54
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘54’ bottom left, inverted, and ‘320’ top left, inverted
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 54’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in the sketchbook, this is the left (and main) section of a two-part panorama of Geneva from the junction of the Rivers Rhône and Arve, with the cathedral in the centre right distance, and Mont Salève to the right, whence it is continued on the opposite page (D29137; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 53a).
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, ‘Geneva from the Junction of the Rivers Rhône and Arve 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-geneva-from-the-junction-of-the-rivers-rhone-and-arve-r1144684, accessed 20 September 2024.