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

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

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Geneva from the West near the Junction of the Rivers Rhône and Arve’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 57 Recto:
Geneva from the West near the Junction of the Rivers Rhône and Arve 1836
D41096
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘57’ bottom left, inverted, and ‘320’ top left, inverted
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘57’ bottom left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This side of the page, not described by Finberg, is now bound as the recto. Drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in the sketchbook, the view here is of Geneva from the west, from the cliffs near the church of St Jean, near the junction of the Rivers Rhône and Arve. The subject is effectively continued to the right in the drawing overleaf (D29143; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 57).
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 West near 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-west-near-the-junction-of-the-rivers-rhone-r1144690, accessed 27 April 2024.