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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Sketches: Mont Blanc from above Geneva, a Mansion, and Two Views of the Castle of Chillon 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Sketches: Mont Blanc from above Geneva, a Mansion, and Two Views of the Castle of Chillon’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Four Sketches: Mont Blanc from above Geneva, a Mansion, and Two Views of the Castle of Chillon 1836
D29147
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 59a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Gilly[?]’
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘Junction with 60 curious’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains four sketches:
i. (left, drawn with the page held upright) Looking over Geneva to the Mole, Mont Blanc and Mont Salève, from the north, in the vicinity of Ferney-Voltaire. Turner sketched similar views, probably on the same excursion (D34195 and D34290; Turner Bequest CCCXLII 11, 85), and also in a watercolour (D36109; Turner Bequest CCCLXIV 262), probably also of 1836.
ii. (centre left, drawn with the page held upright) A mansion, inscribed lower right ‘Gilly[?]’, and thus perhaps at Grilly on the Lausanne road north of Geneva.
iii. (above right) The Castle of Chillon, a close view from the east.
iv. (below right) Chillon, a close view from the west; a detail from the same angle as the sketch on the opposite page (D29148; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 60).

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Four Sketches: Mont Blanc from above Geneva, a Mansion, and Two Views of the Castle of Chillon 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-four-sketches-mont-blanc-from-above-geneva-a-mansion-and-two-r1144695, accessed 27 April 2024.