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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Geneva from the West, above the Quai du Seujet 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Geneva from the West, above the Quai du Seujet’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Geneva from the West, above the Quai du Seujet 1836
D34185
Turner Bequest CCCXLII 1
Chalk and pencil on paper, 240 x 327 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCCXLII–1’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s 1836 tour of the Alps began in Geneva, where he and his travelling companion, the wealthy Scottish landowner H.A.J. Munro of Novar may have stayed at the lakeside Hotel Bergues.1 For more information about the tour, see the Introduction to this section.
Turner also made a watercolour of Geneva, perhaps partially based on the present study, which shows the city from a similar viewpoint (private collection2); he also made various other sketches of the lake; for more information, see the entry for D34195 (Turner Bequest CCCXLII 11).
1
Hill 2000, p.268.
2
Sold at Christie’s, London, 24 November 1998, no.95; see Hill 2000, p.268.
Technical notes:
For information about the paper support, see the Technical Notes section of the entry for D34195 (Turner Bequest CCCXLII 11).
Verso:
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Elizabeth Jacklin
August 2019

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘Geneva from the West, above the Quai du Seujet 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2019, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-geneva-from-the-west-above-the-quai-du-seujet-r1204581, accessed 17 May 2024.