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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches: Two Mountain Panoramas ?in the Val d'Aosta near St Pierre; the Via Palazzo di Citta, Susa 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches: Two Mountain Panoramas ?in the Val d'Aosta near St Pierre; the Via Palazzo di Citta, Susa’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Three Sketches: Two Mountain Panoramas ?in the Val d’Aosta near St Pierre; the Via Palazzo di Citta, Susa 1836
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Turner Bequest CCXCIV 55a
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘C St Pierre comes in front of Lon [?]’, ‘Light [?]’, ‘Rosa [?]’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches:
i. (main sketch) A mountain panorama with a castle on rising ground to the left, inscribed ‘C St Pierre comes in front of Lon [?]’, and thus possibly near St Pierre, Val d’Aosta.
ii. (centre, below the main sketch) Distant mountains, possibly in the Val d’Aosta, inscribed ‘Light [?]’ left, and ‘Rosa [?]’ left of centre.
iii. (bottom, inverted in relation to sketches i and ii) Susa, the Via Palazzo di Citta. Turner probably took this sketch from a hotel room since his viewpoint is well above street level.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Three Sketches: Two Mountain Panoramas ?in the Val d’Aosta near St Pierre; the Via Palazzo di Citta, Susa 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-three-sketches-two-mountain-panoramas-in-the-val-daosta-near-r1144865, accessed 26 April 2024.