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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches from Courmayeur, Looking down the Val d'Aosta 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches from Courmayeur, Looking down the Val d'Aosta’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Recto:
Two Sketches from Courmayeur, Looking down the Val d’Aosta 1836
D29078
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 24
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘S’, ‘Lev’, ‘Blanc from S Didier’, ‘1’,‘2’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘24’ bottom left, inverted, and ‘320’ top left, inverted
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 24’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches, drawn inverted in relation to the main sequence of subjects in the sketchbook:
i. (main sketch) Courmayeur church and terrace from below, looking down the Val d’Aosta.
ii. (above right) From above Courmayeur, looking down the Val d’Aosta, with Courmayeur church to the left.
Turner sketched a similar view to both these sketches in a watercolour study (Tate D36230; Turner Bequest CCCLXIV 368), but from a distinct viewpoint.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches from Courmayeur, Looking down the Val d’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-two-sketches-from-courmayeur-looking-down-the-val-daosta-r1144627, accessed 23 September 2024.