J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Fort Bard Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Donnas, Val d'Aosta, with the Rock Gate on the Strada Romana 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Donnas, Val d'Aosta, with the Rock Gate on the Strada Romana’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 42 Recto:
Donnas, Val d’Aosta, with the Rock Gate on the Strada Romana 1836
D29286
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 41
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘41’ top left, running vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 41’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This time looking down the Val d’Aosta Turner has sketched another view of the Rock Gate on the Strada Romana at Donnas; see also the adjacent pages of the sketchbook (D29284, D29285; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 40, 40a).

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Donnas, Val d’Aosta, with the Rock Gate on the Strada Romana 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-donnas-val-daosta-with-the-rock-gate-on-the-strada-romana-r1144836, accessed 02 August 2025.