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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Sketches: Two of Stratford-upon-Avon; Two of Boats on Lake Geneva 1833 and 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Sketches: Two of Stratford-upon-Avon; Two of Boats on Lake Geneva’ 1833 and 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Verso:
Four Sketches: Two of Stratford-upon-Avon; Two of Boats on Lake Geneva 1833 and 1836
D29178
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 75
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 75’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page (now correctly bound as the verso rather than as the recto as stamped and described by Finberg) contains four sketches:
i. (right, drawn with the page upright) Stratford-upon-Avon.
ii. (right) Stratford, with a detail of the church tower and spire below left.
iii. (top left) Boats off Geneva, with a detail of a tillerman below right.
iv. (bottom left) Boats off Geneva, an octagonal tower beyond. Inscribed ‘Lake of Geneva’.
See Introduction to the sketchbook for the presence of a small run of sketches at Stratford dating from 1833 and sometimes overlaid, as on this page, by subjects sketched in 1836.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Four Sketches: Two of Stratford-upon-Avon; Two of Boats on Lake Geneva 1833 and 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-four-sketches-two-of-stratford-upon-avon-two-of-boats-on-r1144727, accessed 25 April 2024.