Joseph Mallord William Turner

This page contains three sketches:

i. (main sketch, drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in the sketchbook) A hastily-drawn sketch of the chancel of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, as seen from the south-east corner, with Shakespeare’s Monument summarily indicated on the wall, centre left, the double monument of Richard and Judith Combe occupying the centre of the page, and the floor tomb of Thomas Balsall below.1 Turner sketched Shakespeare’s Monument in detail on a succeeding page (D29191; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 81a) and the same material in greater detail from the south-west angle on another (D29193; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 82a), these sketches forming the basis of a finished watercolour of Shakespeare’s Monument (untraced)2 painted 1833–4 and engraved by J. Horsburgh for The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott (1834). See Introduction to the sketchbook for the presence of a small run of sketches at Stratford dating from 1833 as well as the majority of subjects from 1836 including the following.
ii. (right, drawn with the page upright) Avise, looking up the Val d’Aosta, a more distant view than on a subsequent page (D29192; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 83). The whole valley floor here is now filled with a hydo-electricity generating station.
iii. (left, drawn with the page upright) A very quick thumbnail sketch of an Alpine valley, possibly the Val d’Aosta near the site of (ii) above.