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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches: The Castle of Chillon, Chatelard Castle in the Val d'Aosta, and Part of a Sketch of Geneva 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches: The Castle of Chillon, Chatelard Castle in the Val d'Aosta, and Part of a Sketch of Geneva’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Recto:
Three Sketches: The Castle of Chillon, Chatelard Castle in the Val d’Aosta, and Part of a Sketch of Geneva 1836
D29151
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Chatelard’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘61’ top right and ‘320’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This side of the page, not described by Finberg, is now bound as the recto. It contains three sketches:
i. (main sketch) The Castle of Chillon from a close viewpoint to the west, looking towards Villeneuve Church on the left.
ii. (top left) A few lines of continuation to the right of the sketch of Geneva from the north-west on the opposite page (D29149; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 60a).
iii. (top right) A very quick thumbnail sketch of Chatelard Castle from near Morgex in the Val d’Aosta backed by mountains, inscribed below, ‘Chatelard’.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Three Sketches: The Castle of Chillon, Chatelard Castle in the Val d’Aosta, and Part of a Sketch of 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-the-castle-of-chillon-chatelard-castle-in-the-r1144698, accessed 09 May 2024.