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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of the Castle of Chatelard above Clarens 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of the Castle of Chatelard above Clarens’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Recto:
Two Sketches of the Castle of Chatelard above Clarens 1836
D29118
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 44
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘44’ top right and ‘320’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 44’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches:
i. (main sketch) The right section of a two-part panorama of the head of Lake Geneva from above Clarens, continued from the opposite page (D29117; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 43a) and here including the Castle of Chatelard.
ii. (below) Looking up to the castle of Chatelard from Clarens.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches of the Castle of Chatelard above Clarens 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-of-the-castle-of-chatelard-above-clarens-r1144664, accessed 25 April 2024.