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 > Fort Bard Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Verres, Val d'Aosta, Looking towards the Convent of St Gilles with the Fort beyond 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Verres, Val d'Aosta, Looking towards the Convent of St Gilles with the Fort beyond’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Recto:
Verres, Val d’Aosta, Looking towards the Convent of St Gilles with the Fort beyond 1836
D29213
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 1
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘1’ bottom right, descending vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ bottom left, descending vertically
Inscribed by an unknown hand ‘20’ top right, descending vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 1’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch depicts Verres in the Val d’Aosta, looking towards the convent of St Gilles, with the fort beyond. Turner sketched similar subjects in this sketchbook (D29298, D29303; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 47, 49a). The former shows the time on the clock as 12.35; here it shows 1.45.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Verres, Val d’Aosta, Looking towards the Convent of St Gilles with the Fort beyond 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-verres-val-daosta-looking-towards-the-convent-of-st-gilles-r1144765, accessed 18 April 2024.