In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Pen and ink, graphite and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 229 x 293 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D33490
Turner Bequest CCCXXXII 20
Display caption
Turner visited Geneva on various occasions, en route across the Alps to Italy. Perhaps his most important drawings of it were made in 1802, on his first continental tour. But in 1841 he made other views including this delicate study of the town compressed into the narrow plain where the Rhône flows out at the foot of the lake. Mont Blanc is seen in the background.
Gallery label, September 2004
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