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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Grenoble Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?A Castle in the Val d'Aosta 1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?A Castle in the Val d'Aosta’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
?A Castle in the Val d’Aosta 1802
D04544
Turner Bequest LXXIV 51
Pencil, black chalk and white gouache on greyish-buff laid paper, 218 x 284 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXIV 51’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The title ‘Distant Alps’ was given to this drawing by John Ruskin. The subject is not certainly identified; although it may well be a scene in the Val d’Aosta the castle may not be the Château de St Pierre as the present writer thought at the time of the 1999 Tate/Martigny exhibition (for a drawing certainly of that castle from this sketchbook see D04555; Turner Bequest LXXIV 62).
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David Blayney Brown
September 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?A Castle in the Val d’Aosta 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-castle-in-the-val-daosta-r1146409, accessed 19 April 2024.