Joseph Mallord William Turner

This page contains three sketches:

i. (main sketch, above, drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in the sketchbook) The right section of a two-part panorama of the lake front and mouth of the River Rhône at Geneva, continued from the opposite page (D29132; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 51), and including the Hotel des Bergues here at the right.
ii. (below, inverted in relation to the main sketch) The south shore of Lake Geneva at Collonge near Geneva, from the lake, with the ‘V[illa] Diodati’, residence of the poet Lord Byron in 1816, on the hillside, although misleadingly inscribed on the shoreside house, which is possibly that in which Byron’s fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley stayed. Inscribed ‘Milky Blue Water[?]’ below.
iii. (right, drawn with the page in the upright position) A swift, thumbnail sketch of a wide, shallow-roofed farmhouse, with a round tower on a hill beyond. The scenery here looks more like the Val d’Aosta than the Lake Geneva area. Inscribed below (firmly but difficult to decipher) ‘B[?ell] Ringers House’.

For notes on the Rhône at Geneva see D29140; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 55 in this sketchbook.