Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Head of Lake Geneva from above Vevey

1836

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Val d’Aosta Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 113 × 190 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D29119
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 44 a

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This view is taken from above Vevey, possibly from the terrace of St Martin’s Cathedral, looking towards the head of Lake Geneva, with the Tour de Peilz in the centre and figures in the foreground. Turner painted a similar view in a watercolour of Vevey (private collection) painted about 1809 1 and sketched the same material but from further to the right in the present sketchbook (D29065; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 17a).

David Hill
June 2010

Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.344 no.392.

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