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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Sketches including Lake Geneva and Le Mole from near Geneva 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Sketches including Lake Geneva and Le Mole from near Geneva’ 1836 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
Four Sketches including Lake Geneva and Le Mole from near Geneva 1836
D41097
Turner Bequest
Pencil on white wove paper, 190 x 113 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Windo[w]’, ‘W’
Stamped faintly in brown ‘CCXCIII 93’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Four sketches are here, drawn with the sketchbook held upright:
i. (top) The Mole and Lake Geneva from Geneva, inscribed ‘Leman’.
ii. Looking up ramparts to a town, possibly Geneva.
iii. (below left of (ii)). Detail of a cottage, perhaps related to (iv).
iv. Houses on a height, inscribed ‘L Cair [??]’ below right.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Four Sketches including Lake Geneva and Le Mole from near Geneva 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-including-lake-geneva-and-le-mole-from-near-r1144762, accessed 23 September 2024.