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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Val d'Aosta Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Lausanne from the North-East 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lausanne from the North-East’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Recto:
Lausanne from the North-East 1836
D29126
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 48
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘48’ bottom left, inverted, and ‘320’ top left, inverted
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 48’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in this sketchbook, this is the left section of a two-part panorama of Lausanne Cathedral and chateau from the north-east, now the hospital district, with Lake Geneva beyond, continued to the right on the opposite page (D29125; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 47a). Turner painted a similar view in a watercolour of Lausanne (University of Michigan),1 but the material there is treated rather differently.

David Hill
June 2010

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.474 no.1459.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Lausanne from the North-East 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-lausanne-from-the-north-east-r1144672, accessed 19 September 2024.