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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches: Dole from the River; Two Sketches of Aosta 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches: Dole from the River; Two Sketches of Aosta’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Three Sketches: Dole from the River; Two Sketches of Aosta 1836
D29060
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 15
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil, ‘[?] B...g P...’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘14’ bottom left, inverted, and ‘320’ top left, inverted
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 14’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches:
i. (main sketch, inverted in relation to the main sequence of subjects in the sketchbook) Dole from the east, looking down the river to the town and church of Notre Dame.
ii. (bottom left, inverted in relation to the above) Aosta from the north-west; continued to the right from the opposite page (D29059; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 14a).
iii. (bottom right, also inverted in relation to the main sketch) Aosta from the north.
Turner’s hardly legible inscription was read as ‘Bath P’ by Maurice Guillaud for the 1981 Paris catalogue.1

David Hill
June 2010

1
Guillaud 1981, p.473.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Three Sketches: Dole from the River; Two Sketches 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-three-sketches-dole-from-the-river-two-sketches-of-aosta-r1144609, accessed 25 April 2024.