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 Four Views of Aosta 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Views of Aosta’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Recto:
Four Views of Aosta 1836
D29058
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 14
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘14’ top right and ‘320’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 14’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains four sketches:
i. (main sketch) Aosta from the north-east, with the Arch of Augustus to the left and the church of St Ours to the right.
ii. (bottom centre) A thumbnail sketch of Aosta from the north-east. Turner recorded a similar view to this in a watercolour (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts).1
iii. (bottom right) A thumbnail sketch of Aosta from the north-east.
iv (bottom left) The continuation to the right of the thumbnail sketch of Aosta from the north-east at the bottom right of the opposite page (D29057; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 13a).

David Hill
June 2010

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.472 no.1439.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Four Views of Aosta 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-four-views-of-aosta-r1144607, accessed 16 April 2024.