Joseph Mallord William Turner

Finberg listed this as one of 22 leaves from this sketchbook found ‘in a parcel labelled by Mr. Ruskin – “M. 16. Leaves of S. 229. Laid down.” They have been mounted on cartridge by Mr. Ruskin.’ Evidently, Ruskin isolated these drawings because they were pencil outlines, without the additions of chalk or gouache found elsewhere in the sketchbook.

For Chillon in this sketchbook see notes to D04570; Turner Bequest LXXIV 77. Here, the castle is seen from the east, from the shore of the lake. Turner made a more all-embracing treatment of the same view during his tour with H.A.J. Munro of Novar in 1836 (see the Val d’Aosta sketchbook, Tate D29116; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 43).

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Laid down