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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Looking towards the Mole and Lake Geneva from above Gex 1836

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Looking towards the Mole and Lake Geneva from above Gex’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Looking towards the Mole and Lake Geneva from above Gex 1836
D34284
Turner Bequest CCCXLII 81
Chalk and pencil on paper, 238 x 321 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCCXLII–81’ bottom right
Inscribed in pencil ‘81’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study relates to Turner’s 1836 tour of the Alps, which he made in the company of the wealthy Scottish landowner H.A.J. Munro of Novar; for more information, see the Introduction to this section.
The sketch shows the same peaks as seen in a slightly more finished, drawing, Tate D34195 (Turner Bequest CCCXLII 11). The Turner scholar David Hill identified both views as taken from above Gex, not far from Geneva, with Lake Geneva (or Lac Leman) seen below.1 The distinctive peak of Le Môle, a mountain near Bonneville, is visible in the distance.
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Hill 2000, p.267.
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Elizabeth Jacklin
August 2019

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘Looking towards the Mole and Lake Geneva from above Gex 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-looking-towards-the-mole-and-lake-geneva-from-above-gex-r1204593, accessed 17 May 2024.