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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Grenoble Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Liddes 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Liddes’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Liddes 1802
D04573
Turner Bequest LXXIV 80
Pencil on greyish-buff laid paper, 212 x 282 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Lid’ and ‘Leades’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXIV 80’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg listed this as one of 22 leaves from this sketchbook found ‘in a parcel labelled by Mr. Ruskin – “M. 16. Leaves of S. 229. Laid down.” They have been mounted on cartridge by Mr. Ruskin.’ Evidently, Ruskin isolated these drawings because they were pencil outlines, without the additions of chalk or gouache found elsewhere in the sketchbook.
In 1802 Turner passed through the village of Liddes as he descended the Val d’Entremont towards Orsières (see from this sketchbook D04572; Turner Bequest LXXIV 79), en route towards the Valais and Martigny. Turner’s stop to make this quick sketch is noted by David Hill.1
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Hill 1992, p.89.
Verso:
Laid down

David Blayney Brown
September 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Liddes 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-liddes-r1146438, accessed 20 April 2024.