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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches at Geneva 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches at Geneva’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Verso:
Three Sketches at Geneva 1836
D29149
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 60a
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:
i. (left, drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in the sketchbook) Geneva from the north-west, just downstream of the Place St Gervais, the continuation to the right of the drawing on a subsequent page (D29150; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 61).
ii. (top right) Geneva from the banks of the River Rhône to the north-west in the area of St Gervais, looking to the Mole, with the cathedral to the right; continued to the right in a few lines on D29151 opposite.
iii. (bottom right, inverted in relation to (ii)) Geneva from the west, above the Quai du Seujet; the sun or moon rising abve the Cathedral in the east.
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 at Geneva 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-at-geneva-r1144697, accessed 02 April 2026.