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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches: The Porte de Mars, Reims; Mountains ?on the Col du Bonhomme; and Church and Mountains at Contamines above St Gervais on the Route to the Col du Bonhomme 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches: The Porte de Mars, Reims; Mountains ?on the Col du Bonhomme; and Church and Mountains at Contamines above St Gervais on the Route to the Col du Bonhomme’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Recto:
Three Sketches: The Porte de Mars, Reims; Mountains ?on the Col du Bonhomme; and Church and Mountains at Contamines above St Gervais on the Route to the Col du Bonhomme 1836
D29164
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 68
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Contamines’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘68’ bottom left, inverted, and ‘320’ top left, inverted
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 68’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches, drawn with the page held in the upright position working down the page from the outer edge:
i. (top) The Porte de Mars at Reims; the same site is drawn in greater detail from a viewpoint further right on the verso (D29165; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 68a).
ii. A very scrappy sketch of mountains, probably on the Col du Bonhomme route.
iii. The church at ‘Contamines’, looking up the valley towards Mont Joli and the Col du Bonhomme.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Three Sketches: The Porte de Mars, Reims; Mountains ?on the Col du Bonhomme; and Church and Mountains at Contamines above St Gervais on the Route to 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-three-sketches-the-porte-de-mars-reims-mountains-on-the-col-r1144712, accessed 27 April 2024.