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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Tower above Villeneuve, Val d'Aosta, Looking to the Castle and Church at Introd 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Tower above Villeneuve, Val d'Aosta, Looking to the Castle and Church at Introd’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 89 Recto:
A Tower above Villeneuve, Val d’Aosta, Looking to the Castle and Church at Introd 1836
D29373
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 88
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘88’ top left, running vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 88’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Looking up the Val d’Aosta towards Introd this sketch includes the ?Roman tower, now demolished, above Villeneuve seen elsewhere in this sketchbook (D29364 and D29372; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 83 and 87). As previously noted (see catalogue entries), only foundations of this structure survive today.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘A Tower above Villeneuve, Val d’Aosta, Looking to the Castle and Church at Introd 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-a-tower-above-villeneuve-val-daosta-looking-to-the-castle-r1144923, accessed 19 April 2024.