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 ?Rumilly 1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Rumilly’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
?Rumilly 1802
D04587
Turner Bequest LXXIV 94
Pencil, black chalk and white gouache on greyish-buff laid paper, 214 x 283 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXIV 94’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Exhibited as number 19 in the First Loan Collection1 this drawing probably depicts Rumilly, near Annecy. Three of Turner’s labels for Grenoble drawings are inscribed ‘Romilly’ [sic]; see also from this sketchbook D04532, D04589; Turner Bequest LXXIV 39, 96).
The paper is discoloured from exposure.
1
For the full tour of the First Loan Collection see Warrell 1991, p.39.
Verso:
Laid down

David Blayney Brown
September 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?Rumilly 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-rumilly-r1146452, accessed 26 April 2024.