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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Fort Bard, Val d'Aosta 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fort Bard, Val d'Aosta’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Fort Bard, Val d’Aosta 1836
D29291
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 43a
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a very hasty note of the view of Fort Bard, Val d’Aosta, from the north, possibly on the main road from Verres, with the church spire framed in the cusp of the valley to the left of the fort. Although amounting to no more than a few scrappy lines, this seems to be almost exactly the view in Turner’s watercolour of Fort Bard (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight).1

David Hill
June 2010

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.481 no.1515.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Fort Bard, Val d’Aosta 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-fort-bard-val-daosta-r1144841, accessed 26 April 2024.