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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches: A Street with a Church; Two Views of Mountains near the Head of Lake Geneva 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches: A Street with a Church; Two Views of Mountains near the Head of Lake Geneva’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Three Sketches: A Street with a Church; Two Views of Mountains near the Head of Lake Geneva 1836
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Turner Bequest CCXCIII 10a
Pencil on white wove paper, 190 x 113 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?]Cast West ’,’[?]Dalu Don’; ‘[?] Dailus Nature’, centre right, in relation to the main sketch, and ‘Blue’ at bottom in relation to third sketch, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches:
i. (top, drawn with page turned upright) A street with a large church. Turner’s inscriptions seem to relate to this but are scarcely legible; the readings proposed here –‘[?]Cast West ’, [?]Dalu Don’ and ‘[?] Dailus Nature’ – are extremely doubtful.
ii. (centre) The south shore of Lake Geneva, looking east to the head of the lake.
iii. (bottom, squeezed in along the gutter, and inverted in relation to the other two subjects) Mountains and lake, probably the south shore of Lake Geneva, possibly from near Villeneuve, inscribed ‘Blue’ in the distance.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Three Sketches: A Street with a Church; Two Views of Mountains near the Head of Lake Geneva 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-three-sketches-a-street-with-a-church-two-views-of-mountains-r1144600, accessed 26 April 2024.