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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three sketches: A View near ?Bonneville; A view on Lake Geneva; and a Panorama of Hills 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three sketches: A View near ?Bonneville; A view on Lake Geneva; and a Panorama of Hills’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Recto:
Three sketches: A View near ?Bonneville; A view on Lake Geneva; and a Panorama of Hills 1836
D29098
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 34
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘34’ bottom left, inverted, and ‘320’, top left, inverted
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 34’ 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 numbered series of subjects in the sketchbook) A scene in the ?Arve Valley; a church to the right, and a castle on eminence in the distance, perhaps Faucigny from near Bonneville.
ii. (Left, drawn with the sketchbook upright) Boats on Lake Geneva, continued to the left, above.
iii. (Below, inverted in relation to the main sketch) The right-hand part of a two-part panorama of a range of hills, continued from D29097; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 33a, opposite, possibly depicting The Mole, or Mont Salève to the right.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Three sketches: A View near ?Bonneville; A view on Lake Geneva; and a Panorama of Hills 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-view-near-bonneville-a-view-on-lake-geneva-r1144645, accessed 20 September 2024.