Joseph Mallord William Turner

Geneva

1841

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Fribourg, Lausanne and Geneva Sketchbook
Medium
Pen and ink, graphite and watercolour on paper
Dimensions
Support: 229 × 293 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D33490
Turner Bequest CCCXXXII 20

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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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