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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches: Looking along the River at Stratford-upon-Avon; Mountains including Monte Rosa from near Aosta; Avise or Arvier in the Val d'Aosta 1833 and 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches: Looking along the River at Stratford-upon-Avon; Mountains including Monte Rosa from near Aosta; Avise or Arvier in the Val d'Aosta’ 1833 and 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 88 Recto:
Three Sketches: Looking along the River at Stratford-upon-Avon; Mountains including Monte Rosa from near Aosta; Avise or Arvier in the Val d’Aosta 1833 and 1836
D29204
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 88
Pencil on white wove paper, 190 x 113 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Mt Rosa’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘88’ top right and ‘320’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 88’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches:
i. (main sketch) The view down the river at Stratford-upon-Avon, with the Guild Chapel over the bridge to the left and the toll house at the right, continued to the right from Holy Trinity Church on the opposite page (D29203; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 87a). See Introduction to the sketchbook for the presence of a small run of sketches at Stratford dating from 1833, as well as the majority of subjects from 1836 including the following.
ii. (above, inverted in relation to the main sketch) An Alpine panorama from near Aosta, with ‘Mt Rosa’ in the distance.
iii. (right, drawn with the page upright) A tiny thumbnail sketch of a Val d’Aosta tower and church, probably at Avise or Arvier.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Three Sketches: Looking along the River at Stratford-upon-Avon; Mountains including Monte Rosa from near Aosta; Avise or Arvier in the Val d’Aosta 1833 and 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-looking-along-the-river-at-stratford-upon-r1144752, accessed 25 April 2024.