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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Fort Bard Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Looking down the Val d'Aosta to Villeneuve and the Château d'Argent 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Looking down the Val d'Aosta to Villeneuve and the Château d'Argent’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 90 Recto:
Looking down the Val d’Aosta to Villeneuve and the Château d’Argent 1836
D29375
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 89
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘89’ top left, running vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 89’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch looks down the Val d’Aosta from Villeneuve, with the lower bridge and old church beyond, the new church to the right and Château d’Argent above.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Looking down the Val d’Aosta to Villeneuve and the Château d’Argent 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-looking-down-the-val-daosta-to-villeneuve-and-the-chateau-r1144925, accessed 23 April 2024.