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 The Castle of Chillon 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Castle of Chillon’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Recto:
The Castle of Chillon 1836
D29148
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 60
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘60’ top right and ‘320’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 60’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this view of the Castle of Chillon from the west Turner revisited the subject of a watercolour (British Museum, London)1 painted about 1809.

David Hill
June 2010

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.344 no.390.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘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-the-castle-of-chillon-r1144696, accessed 25 April 2024.