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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Five Sketches, Including the Head of Lake Geneva and an Alpine Track, Possibly on the Col du Bonhomme 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Five Sketches, Including the Head of Lake Geneva and an Alpine Track, Possibly on the Col du Bonhomme’ 1836 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover:
Five Sketches, Including the Head of Lake Geneva and an Alpine Track, Possibly on the Col du Bonhomme 1836
D41094
Pencil on white wove paper, 190 x 113 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?]Mast’ by top sketch, right; ‘D Blue W’ by middle sketch, lower left; ‘[?] Passage of the Alps’ above bottom sketch
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII’ top right, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The inside front cover has five thumbnail sketches in successive registers. From top to bottom these depict the shore of Lake Geneva, perhaps at Vevey, and three successive stages of a continuous panorama of the head of the lake from off Vevey, all taken during a steamer trip, and a scene drawn later while crossing the Col du Bonhomme between Chamonix and Courmayeur.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Five Sketches, Including the Head of Lake Geneva and an Alpine Track, Possibly on the Col du Bonhomme 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-five-sketches-including-the-head-of-lake-geneva-and-an-r1144580, accessed 23 April 2024.