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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Sketches at Lausanne and Vevey 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Sketches at Lausanne and Vevey’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Verso:
Four Sketches at Lausanne and Vevey 1836
D29061
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 15a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘S’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains four sketches:
i. (main sketch) A panorama of Lausanne citadel and Cathedral from the south, taken from the vicinity of the Rue de Bourg, Lake Geneva and continued on the opposite page (D29062; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 16) to include Le Signal to the right. Turner has run out of room for the cathedral, which is directly above the prominent building, and has squeezed it in below (ii).
ii. (bottom right) Lausanne Cathedral, the continuation above of the main sketch (i) and further continued to the right, opposite (D29062). To the left of the cathedral, Turner has recorded successive stages of sunset.
iii. (bottom left) Vevey and the head of Lake Geneva looking east from the end of the promenade at Vevey. The first part of a three-part panorama, continued to the right above left (iv) and still further right, opposite (D29062), lower right.
iv. (top left) The south shore of the head of Lake Geneva from Vevey. The second part of a three-part panorama continued to the right from (iii). The sketch is inscribed ‘S’ above left pointing to a mountain at the head of the lake, where the rising sun is also indicated.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Four Sketches at Lausanne and Vevey 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-sketches-at-lausanne-and-vevey-r1144610, accessed 18 September 2024.