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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Verres, Val d'Aosta; the Bridge, Castle and Church and College of St Gilles 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Verres, Val d'Aosta; the Bridge, Castle and Church and College of St Gilles’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Verso:
Verres, Val d’Aosta; the Bridge, Castle and Church and College of St Gilles 1836
D29305
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 50a
Watermarked ‘Auondo’
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a slightly more distant view of Verres, Val d’Aosta, with the Church and College of St Gilles, the bridge and Verres Castle, than appears in the sketch on the opposite page of the sketchbook (D29306; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 51).

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Verres, Val d’Aosta; the Bridge, Castle and Church and College of St Gilles 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-verres-val-daosta-the-bridge-castle-and-church-and-college-r1144855, accessed 26 April 2024.