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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches on Lake Geneva near Clarens and Montreux 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches on Lake Geneva near Clarens and Montreux’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 40 Recto:
Three Sketches on Lake Geneva near Clarens and Montreux 1836
D29110
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 40
Pencil on white wove paper, 190 x 113 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?] Water Colour’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘40’ top left, running vertically, and ‘320’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 40’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches, made with the page upright and working down the page from the outside edge:
i. A boat by the shore of Lake Geneva, perhaps near Clarens.
ii. The corniche by Lake Geneva, probably in the region of Chillon or Montreux.
iii. A road by Lake Geneva in the same region; carriages and figures in foreground.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Three Sketches on Lake Geneva near Clarens and Montreux 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-on-lake-geneva-near-clarens-and-montreux-r1144656, accessed 16 April 2024.