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 Two Sketches: Stratford-upon-Avon; Castle in the ?Arve Valley 1833 and 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches: Stratford-upon-Avon; Castle in the ?Arve Valley’ 1833 and 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 87 Recto:
Two Sketches: Stratford-upon-Avon; Castle in the ?Arve Valley 1833 and 1836
D29202
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 87
Pencil on white wove paper, 190 x 113 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Ch ....y’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘87’ bottom left, inverted, and ‘320’ top left, inverted
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 87’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See Introduction to the sketchbook for the presence of a small run of sketches at Stratford-upon-Avon dating from 1833, including the main subject here, a view south along the river to Holy Trinity Church. The second thumbnail sketch, above, dating from 1836, depicts an Alpine castle on an eminence. This is perhaps Faucigny in the Arve Valley, in the light of Turner’s partly-legible inscription ‘Ch ....y’ to its right.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches: Stratford-upon-Avon; Castle in the ?Arve Valley 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-two-sketches-stratford-upon-avon-castle-in-the-arve-valley-r1144750, accessed 20 September 2024.