Joseph Mallord William Turner

Geneva from the River Rhône

1802

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
France, Savoy, Piedmont Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 138 × 215 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D04433
Turner Bequest LXXIII 39

Catalogue entry

Unlike many of the sketches in this sketchbook, this is a careful and closely observed study. For Geneva see especially folio 5 (D04397) and also folios 35 and 40–4 (D04427, D04434–D04438) where the majority of Turner’s sketches of the city are concentrated. David Hill, in correspondence with the author, has identified this view as taken from the Rhône.1
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Letter to David Blayney Brown, 4 April 2004, Tate catalogue files
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David Blayney Brown
June 2004

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