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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches: Aosta, Looking up the Valley;?Alpine Scene 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches: Aosta, Looking up the Valley;?Alpine Scene’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 84 Verso:
Two Sketches: Aosta, Looking up the Valley;?Alpine Scene 1836
D29197
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 84a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?] Quart’, bottom right of sketch (i)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches:
i. (right, drawn with the page upright) Aosta from the east, from near Chateau ‘[?]Quart’, looking up the Val d’Aosta. Similar material is recorded in a watercolour of Aosta (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.1
ii. (left, drawn with the page upright) A few scribbled lines, almost illegible but probably depicting scenery in the Alps.

David Hill
June 2010

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.472 no.1439.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches: Aosta, Looking up the Valley;?Alpine Scene 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-two-sketches-aosta-looking-up-the-valleyalpine-scene-r1144745, accessed 26 April 2024.