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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches: St Dizier from the East, Looking along the River Marne; View from a Cross on a High Mountain Pass,?the Col du Bonhomme 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches: St Dizier from the East, Looking along the River Marne; View from a Cross on a High Mountain Pass,?the Col du Bonhomme’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 67 Recto:
Two Sketches: St Dizier from the East, Looking along the River Marne; View from a Cross on a High Mountain Pass,?the Col du Bonhomme 1836
D29162
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 67
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘St Diz’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘67’ bottom left, inverted, and ‘320’ top left, inverted
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 67’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches:
i. (main sketch, drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in the sketchbook) Church at St Dizier from the River Marne, with rafts of timber on the water.
ii. (top left, inverted in relation to the main sketch) A quick thumbnail sketch from a high mountain viewpoint, with a wayside cross in the foreground, possibly looking west from the Col du Bonhomme.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches: St Dizier from the East, Looking along the River Marne; View from a Cross on a High Mountain Pass,?the Col du Bonhomme 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-st-dizier-from-the-east-looking-along-the-river-r1144710, accessed 24 April 2024.