Joseph Mallord William Turner

Fort Bard, Val d’Aosta

1836

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In Tate Britain

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Fort Bard Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 104 x 148 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D29291
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 43 a

Catalogue entry

This is a very hasty note of the view of Fort Bard, Val d’Aosta, from the north, possibly on the main road from Verres, with the church spire framed in the cusp of the valley to the left of the fort. Although amounting to no more than a few scrappy lines, this seems to be almost exactly the view in Turner’s watercolour of Fort Bard (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight).1

David Hill
June 2010

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.481 no.1515.

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