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 Citadel and Chateau, Lausanne 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Citadel and Chateau, Lausanne’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Recto:
The Citadel and Chateau, Lausanne 1836
D29124
Bequest CCXCIII 47
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘47’ bottom left, inverted, and ‘320’ top left, inverted
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 47’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches:
i. (main sketch, right, inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in this sketchbook) The left section of a two-part panorama of Lausanne and its citadel from the north-west, continued from the opposite page (D29123; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 46a).
ii. (left, drawn with the page upright) The chateau of Lausanne as seen from below, to the north.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Citadel and Chateau, Lausanne 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-citadel-and-chateau-lausanne-r1144670, accessed 05 April 2026.