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 > Val d'Aosta Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Aiguille de Varan, from St Martin's Bridge 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Aiguille de Varan, from St Martin's Bridge’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Recto:
The Aiguille de Varan, from St Martin’s Bridge 1836
D29086
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 28
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘28’ top right and ‘320’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 28’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch shows the Aiguille de Varan, looking across St Martin's Bridge, near Sallanches in the Arve Valley.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Aiguille de Varan, from St Martin’s Bridge 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-the-aiguille-de-varan-from-st-martins-bridge-r1144635, accessed 26 June 2025.