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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Fort Bard Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Recto:
Buildings 1836
D29244
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 18
Pencil on white wove paper, 148 x 104 mm
Watermarked ‘B. Arnos[so]’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘18’ top right, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 18’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two quick sketches:
i. (top, drawn with the page upright) A road in a town.
ii. (sideways in relation to the top sketch) An oblique view of a large building, possibly the Château at Chambéry?

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Buildings 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-buildings-r1144796, accessed 23 April 2024.