Joseph Mallord William Turner

Three Sketches: Dole from the River; Two Sketches of Aosta

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: D29060
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 15

Catalogue entry

This page contains three sketches:

i. (main sketch, inverted in relation to the main sequence of subjects in the sketchbook) Dole from the east, looking down the river to the town and church of Notre Dame.
ii. (bottom left, inverted in relation to the above) Aosta from the north-west; continued to the right from the opposite page (D29059; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 14a).
iii. (bottom right, also inverted in relation to the main sketch) Aosta from the north.

Turner’s hardly legible inscription was read as ‘Bath P’ by Maurice Guillaud for the 1981 Paris catalogue.1

David Hill
June 2010

Guillaud 1981, p.473.

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