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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Val d'Aosta Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Geneva from the North-West 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Geneva from the North-West’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Verso:
Geneva from the North-West 1836
D29150
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 61
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 61’ bottom right.
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This side of the page is now bound as the verso rather than the recto as stamped and described by Finberg.
Drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in the sketchbook, the sketch depicts Geneva from the north-west, just downstream of the Place St Gervais. The view is continued to the right on D29149; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 60a.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Geneva from the North-West 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-north-west-r1144699, accessed 20 September 2024.