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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches: Two of Villeneuve Looking South to the Dents du Midi, and Part of Geneva from the Junction of the Rivers Rhône and Arve 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches: Two of Villeneuve Looking South to the Dents du Midi, and Part of Geneva from the Junction of the Rivers Rhône and Arve’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Three Sketches: Two of Villeneuve Looking South to the Dents du Midi, and Part of Geneva from the Junction of the Rivers Rhône and Arve 1836
D29137
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 53a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches, drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in the sketchbook:
i. (above left) The right section of a two-part panorama of Geneva from the junction of the Rivers Rhône and Arve, continued from the opposite page (D29138; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 54).
ii. (main sketch) Villeneuve, at the head of Lake Geneva, looking south to the Dents du Midi.
iii. (above right) A thumbnail sketch of Villeneuve looking south, from a slightly more distant viewpoint to that of (ii).
For notes on the Rhône at Geneva see D29140; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 55 in this sketchbook.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Three Sketches: Two of Villeneuve Looking South to the Dents du Midi, and Part of Geneva from the Junction of the Rivers Rhône and Arve 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-two-of-villeneuve-looking-south-to-the-dents-r1144683, accessed 21 September 2024.